ORIGINAL SECTION
Original Section Podcast — Description
Original Section is a spoken-word podcast rooted in authenticity, real life, and unfiltered experience.
Season One focuses on PTSD — exploring trauma, loss, addiction, paranoia, self-hate, and the search for peace through personal storytelling and cinematic narration. It’s not therapy and it’s not performance — it’s lived truth.
Each season of Original Section shifts into a new chapter, tackling different real-life topics through an original lens. Every episode comes from a place of honesty, growth, and self-reflection — because no two sections are the same, and no story is meant to be told the same way twice.
This podcast is for anyone navigating real life, real pain, and real growth — Live From The Section.
ORIGINAL SECTION
Episode 2 — How Do You Deal?
'LIVE FROM THE SECTION'
Episode 2 explores what happens when pain is met with pressure instead of guidance.
This episode reflects on being told to “be strong,” “toughen up,” and “handle it,” without ever being shown how. Through spoken-word narration, Kariem Ali shares how masking emotions, suppressing tears, and forcing toughness led to self-medication, addiction, and vivid intrusive memories.
The story dives into using substances to numb pain, attempting to erase both good and bad memories, and realizing that trauma doesn’t disappear when avoided. Instead, those memories return — replaying until they are acknowledged.
This episode also highlights two key PTSD responses woven into the story: self-medication as survival, and the mind’s tendency to relive trauma through thoughts, dreams, and flashes.
This is not about failure.
This is about surviving the only way you knew how.
If this episode feels familiar, you’re not alone.
We in this together.
Written by Kariem Ali
Narrated by Kariem Ali
Edited by Kariem Ali
Produced by Kariem Ali