Mental Illness Happy Hour
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This Best Of episode was originally recorded and aired in 2015. Jeanie, a writer, talks about being parentless at 3 and the complex relationship with her mentally disabled sister whom she no...
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Jen Soriano is a Filipinx author, musician, and first-generation American. She shares important context about Filipino history and how transgenerational trauma plays out for so many people, i...
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01:39:16
Phil Stark is a former screenwriter (Dude, Where’s My Car) turned marriage and family therapist. He shares why he made this huge career pivot plus he and Paul discuss passive aggression in re...
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Paul’s support group friend, Jon Luc, opens up about the ways that school took an incredible mental toll on his life and how being gay in this world has also created challenges. He shares his...
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01:27:27
We visit the family tree today with Paul Gilmartin’s cousin, Paul Barnard. He shares stories of his past, from losing his baby sister to moving in with an entirely new family when he was 8 ye...
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- 2 months ago
01:14:28
David Miklowitz is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA. Dr. Miklowitz’s research focuses on bipolar disorder and in this episode he shares the...
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01:18:27
Elizabeth Husserl (@ElizabethHusserl) is a financial advisor and the author of the new book The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money. She talks about the emotional asp...
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Nathan Spiteri (@NathanSpiteri) is an Australian filmmaker, actor, and writer on a mission to eradicate the lingering shame of abuse. As a child, Nathan was sexually and mentally abused for y...
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- 3 months ago
01:35:06
Dr. Kate Truitt is a psychologist and neuroscientist, visiting the show for the second time. In this episode, she opens up about being childless in our current culture and shares personal sto...
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- 3 months ago
01:33:24
Jason O’Mara (@JasonOmaraOfficial) is an Irish-American actor (Band of Brothers, Blood of Zeus) who advocates for mental health and works closely with Movember, an organization that focuses o...
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Rebecca W is Paul's friend from a support group. She shares her struggles with shyness and low-self esteem and opens up about sex and love addiction as well as her penchant for fantasy. ...
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Franco Vega is the founder of The RightWay Foundation, a nonprofit that helps transition-age foster youth find jobs, stable housing, and mental health support. He shares his own journey, whic...
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Dr. Jessi Gold (@DrJessiGold) is the Chief Wellness Officer for the University of Tennessee as well as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Her main advocacy focus has been burnout in the he...
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01:12:27
Israa Nasir is a therapist and the founder of Well Guide, a digital wellness platform making therapy tools accessible to everyone. She discusses red flags and green flags in terms o...
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01:28:22
JT was well into adulthood before he was able to come to terms with his anger issues. Today, he’s turned things around with the help of therapy, meditation, and support groups. He opens up ab...
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- 4 months ago
01:19:57
Ethan Sapienza is a clinical social worker and therapist specializing in EMDR and DBT. He discusses the benefits of these modalities and shares practical DBT coping mechanisms that everyone c...
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01:34:47
Ahmed Al-kadri (@AhmedLovesBread) is a Yemeni-American comedian who is trying to be a better person, a better partner, and a better man. He shares his journey to realizing his addictions and ...
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- 5 months ago
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Sepideh Saremi (@runwalktalk) is a psychotherapist and the creator of Run Walk Talk, an innovative approach to therapy that utilizes movement and exercise during your therapy session. Sepideh...
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01:42:26
Ruby Cohen Love shares her experience of living with Bipolar I, including extreme mania, hospitalization, and how she takes care of herself now. She also talks about the death cafe movement a...
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David Finch (@HoodFinch) is an actor/writer/producer turned full time visual artist. His new book of clever comics (Output of a Perfectionist) draws from the ups and downs of his own life, in...
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- 5 months ago
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George Kappas is a hypnotherapist and a Director at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. He unpacks the misconceptions about hypnotherapy, discusses how susceptible we are to language, and shar...
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- 6 months ago
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Dr. Peter Levine is a psychologist and biophysicist and the developer of the therapeutic modality, Somatic Experiencing. He is also the author of the wildly popular book, Waking the Tiger and...
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- 6 months ago
01:28:15
Mario Adrion (@MarioAdrion) is a comedian and former model who aims to bring vulnerability to masculinity. He opens up about several instances of sexual assault that he suffered as a model tr...
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Dr. Kat Kaeni is a perinatal psychologist and the host of the Mom and Mind podcast. She shares how she decided to focus on this under-resourced specialty and opens up about her own experience...
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- 6 months ago
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Dr. Jamil Zaki is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford who studies cynicism and hope. He shares what he’s learned through his research, what drew him to study the brain in this wa...
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- 6 months ago
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Kody Green is a speaker, podcast host, and peer support specialist. He is also living with Undifferentiated Schizophrenia. He talks about growing up with a mother who has schizophrenia, how h...
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- 7 months ago
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Paul Scheer (@PaulScheer) is a comedian, actor, podcaster–and now an author. He shares his story of living constantly on edge as a child and opens up about the physical and mental abuse he su...
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- 7 months ago
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Andrea Dunlop is a novelist and the host of the podcast Nobody Should Believe Me, a deep dive into the world of Munchausen and Munchausen by Proxy. She aims to shed light on this misunderstoo...
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- 7 months ago
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Dr. Frank Anderson is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist specializing in psychic pain and trauma. He is working to bring trauma therapies to a wider audience via his books and his various onl...
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- 7 months ago
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Back by popular demand Paul does a listener-survey-only episode. From bleak and dark to touching and funny, listeners share their best and worst moments in vulnerable detail. Plus two servi...
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- 8 months ago
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Comedian and writer DeAnne Smith shares their story of dealing with gender identity, sexuality, and anxiety. Look for their stand-up featured in Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda on Netflix. ...
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- 8 months ago
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Dr. Heather Sandison is a naturopathic doctor focused on dementia care. She is the founder of Solcere Health Clinic, San Diego’s premier brain optimization clinic. She shares her research wit...
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- 8 months ago
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Sierra Katow is a comedian, writer, and actress (The Sex Lives of College Girls). She shares her journey to becoming a comedian, dealing with depression, and how she survived Harvard. Be sure...
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Bruce W. Brackett (@BWB.Positivity) is an author and artist who, along with his sisters, was taken away from his mother and put into foster care when he was a child. He shares his story of hi...
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- 8 months ago
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Dr Samuel Wilkinson is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Director of the Depression Research Program at Yale University. Much of his research has involved the use of keta...
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- 9 months ago
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Johnny Crowder (@JohnnyCrowderLovesYou) is the lead singer of a death metal band and a suicide survivor who shares his story, which includes battles with schizophrenia and depression and how ...
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- 9 months ago
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Valerie is one of Paul’s friends from his support group. She shares stories from her childhood in Rome, which included a philandering and deceptive father. She also digs deep into her own rel...
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- 9 months ago
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Dr. Arash Javanbakht @Arash_Javanbakht is a psychiatrist and serves as the director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic (STARC) at Wayne State School of Medicine. He shares his...
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- 9 months ago
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Penn and Kim Holderness talk about living with and navigating their marriage through ADHD. They open up about their struggles and share strategies to make living with ADHD a little easier. Lo...
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- 10 months ago
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A favorite among listeners, this Best Of episode was originally recorded in 2011, in the first months of the podcast. Stand-up Comedian, Skateboarder and co-host (with Karen Kilgariff) of the...
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- 10 months ago
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A favorite episode among listeners and from the first year of the podcast (2011). How do you cope when you are convinced your life is constantly in danger as a child? First, you band together...
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- 10 months ago
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Dave Manheim is a producer and podcaster (Dopey) who shares his story of recovery and what it was like to create a podcast dedicated to addiction stories–and then to suddenly lose his co-host...
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Marcy Langlois was born with a physical deformity, which required 23 surgical procedures before the age of 18, and was involved in a devastating, life-changing accident at the age of 17. She ...
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- 11 months ago
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Erin Williams is an author, illustrator, and healthcare researcher who joins Paul to discuss chronic pain and how her own struggles with it have served her art. Look for her new book Wha...
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- 11 months ago
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Michael Laurie is an actor, a small group facilitator, and a parent. He talks with Paul about his road to recovery and shares his unusual story of becoming a foster parent, with all the love ...
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- 11 months ago
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Dr. Jeff Karp is a Harvard Medical School professor and bioengineer. He works in the fields of drug delivery, medical devices, stem cell therapeutics, and tissue adhesives and has been recogn...
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- 11 months ago
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Dana Killion is an author of mystery and memoir whose work is informed by her own life’s turmoil. She opens up about her marriage to a high-functioning alcoholic and how she has worked on her...
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- 11 months ago
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Dr. Kate Truitt is a psychologist and neuroscientist who wants to share her own story of how she came to this work. Armed with her knowledge of the mind, she has worked to process her difficu...
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- 1 year ago
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Donn Bradley is a therapist (LMFT) and a former first responder who shares his journey to discovering how much therapy and emotional processing is needed for EMTs, police, and anyone whose wo...
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- 1 year ago
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Margo Steines is a Dominatrix turned welder turned author. She opens up about her experiences as a sex worker, her battles with addiction, and her attraction to pain. She also discusses her m...
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"Remarkable" - Psychology Today"A vital, compassionate gem that fills a desperate and under-addressed need in our society." - Esquire "A perversely safe place in which he and his guests talk about their fears, addictions and traumatic childhoods." - NY Times"Gilmartin makes a conscious effort to explore stories that aren’t black and white" - Slate Magazine"Praised by listeners all over the world" - Atlantic Monthly Named To Top Health Podcast List by: NY Times, Esquire, Slate, Oprah Magazine, Women's Health, Onion A.V. Club, Apple Podcast Staff
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