Mental Illness Happy Hour
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 108 minutes
- Episodes
- 662
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Shame
Paul shares some stories of people battling shame (especially around their bodies) and reads from the Loves, Happy Moments and Awfulsome moments surveys.
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01:01:27 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Pandemic 4
Paul reads listener experiences around their mental/emotional struggles and victories -some serious some humorous- including the Covid crisis.
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00:34:35 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Being Broke & In Debt - Nathan Rabin
The blogger/author returns to open up about dealing with the strain of being fired, perpetually broke and in debt while trying to provide for his family.
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Che…
01:27:26 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Coping w/the Pandemic 3
Another installment of Paul reading anonymous surveys submitted by listeners about their mental and emotional ups and downs during the pandemic as well as things they love.
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00:48:22 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Coping and the Pandemic 2
The second installment of listeners sharing their loves, happy and awfulsome moments and struggles during the pandemic via surveys read by Paul.
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01:03:18 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Coping in a Pandemic
Listeners share their loves and struggles during the pandemic via surveys read by Paul.
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01:02:30 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Things We Love
Who couldn't use some positive vibes this week? No guest, just things that people love, submitted via the show's Loves Survey.
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00:47:26 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Hell's Kitchen Kenny
Paul's support group friend recounts his childhood and teenage years growing up in NYC's Hell's Kitchen and the cycles of violence, addiction, crime and poverty that he is struggling to break.
Suppor…
01:51:33 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
Ask a Sex Crimes Detective - Don Howell Returns
The retired sex crimes detective and speaker/author answers listener questions about the mentality of serial killers and sex offenders, the legal system, victim rights and famous cases past and pres…
01:59:07 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Sleep Deprivation - Teresa Strasser Returns
The host/performer @TeresaStrasser returns to talk about her misdiagnosed, involuntary stay in the psych ward after breaking down as a severely sleep-deprived, mother battling shame and perfectionism…
01:57:27 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Secrets & Trust - Sam Dingman
The writer/performer (winner of The Moth GrandSlam) opens up about the family secret that harmed his ability to trust and the eventual airing of it that improved his relationship with them. He also s…
01:33:15 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Physically Transitioning - Fallon Chavez
Fallon talks about her life as a trans woman; her desire to be "passable", how she feels about her voice, her experiences pre-op and post-op, the fetishizing of trans women, having bottom surgery and…
01:41:38 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Moral Injury - Veteran Tom Voss
The Iraq war veteran, author and advocate talks about PTSD and moral injury he battled after returning home and the positive effects meditating has had on his struggles.
Tom is the author of
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02:05:37 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Ask A Therapist - Katie Vernoy Returns
Therapist Katie Vernoy returns to answer listener questions about therapist/patient boundaries, when to report a client (in response to a very dark survey), what therapists get wrong and how to know …
01:43:49 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Smothered & Entitled - Al Lubel
Al has always been a comedian's comedian, but mainstream success has always eluded him. Raised by a smothering anxious mother, fear and lack of independence have stunted his emotional growth. He talk…
01:40:52 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
From Chaos to Purpose - Wendy Adamson
Despite her traumatic upbringing and becoming the woman (her mom) she swore she'd never be, Wendy went from an alcoholic PTA mother shooting at her husbands mistress to jail to getting sober and find…
01:50:06 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Chronic Health Issues - Karolyn Gehrig
Karolyn suffers from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disease that affects her joints and internal organs as well as being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. She rarely goes more th…
02:12:02 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Native American Ellen Blackcloud
Ellen (a pseudonym) shares about shares about discrimination, growing up poor, living on a reservation, riding the line between native culture and "white people things" and tells her story of groomin…
02:16:01 |
Fri 03 Jan 2020
Best Of: Hank Adams
Prostitution, alcoholism, fetishes, swinging, abandonment and being stabbed by a bayonet. Handyman Hank Adams has experienced them all. Paul’s friend has to literally pause to count how many stepda…
01:21:51 |
Fri 27 Dec 2019
Brian Simpson
The standup comic (Lights Out) (aka @BSComedian) and Iraq War vet opens up about his unstable childhood - being lied to and moved from foster home to foster home - and how it has affected him, what h…
01:36:16 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
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