Podcast · Literary release · Perth
The other person in the room
Everybody has something sitting in the room with them. This is a conversation with the person, and with the thing.
Most conversations ask what is wrong with you. This one asks what it is like to live with you.
The device
Three voices. One chair left empty.
Hosted by Adam James. Each episode sits with a friend, then with the illness they have been living with — not as a monster, and not as a diagnosis read aloud.
Anxiety keeps a clipboard. Depression collects rent. Trauma will not clock off. The humour is on the system. The cost stays with the person.
Funny until it isn't. Hard, without spectacle. Not a smear.
Season one
Twelve rooms. One prologue. One close.
- 00PrologueAdam JamesComing soon
- 01Sarah & the ClipboardSarah + AnxietyListen · 11 min
- 02The LandlordMarcus + DepressionComing soon
- 03The Security GuardElena + TraumaComing soon
- 04The WeatherDavid + BipolarComing soon
- 05The Endless PlayPriya + OCDComing soon
- 06The Ex Who Still Has a KeyTom + AddictionComing soon
- 07National EmergencyAisha + PanicComing soon
- 08Advanced Pattern RecognitionLiam + Rejection sensitivityComing soon
- 09The Hostile WitnessSophie + DysmorphiaComing soon
- 10The Space That Won't VacateJordan + GriefComing soon
- 11The ThermostatMei + Social anxietyComing soon
Content notes sit at the top of every episode. No methods. No graphic detail. If a room is too much, leave it.
Forthcoming
The book keeps the third chair.
Literary non-fiction. Interview. Personal essay. The diagnosis describes the experience. It does not get to become the identity.
The Other Person in the Room
Hosted by Adam James
- Form
- Conversations
- Length
- 70–90,000 words
- Release
- In preparation
They may rearrange the furniture. They don't get to decide who lives there.
The next rooms.
Episode one is up. Leave an email on this device if you want a reminder for yourself. It is not sent anywhere.