Mental Illness Happy Hour
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"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
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 108 minutes
- Episodes
- 662
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
#745 Dr Jessica Zucker - The Hard To Talk About
Dr. Jessica Zucker returns to the podcast for her 4th visit, focusing on the importance of talking about hard things: Cancer, miscarriages, perimenopause, and more. Watch for her new book, Normalize …
01:54:03 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
#744 Loss - Financial & Familial - Mark M
Mark M is Paul’s friend from a support group. He visits the podcast to share his story of addiction, growing up entrenched in deception, and how he eventually broke the pattern in his adult life. He …
01:14:43 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
#743 Sex Addiction Therapy
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01:58:56 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
#742 Jennifer Westcott Part 2
Jennifer Westcott is a therapist who has shared her story of sexual abuse at the hands of her mother. She returns for her second visit on the pod and opens up about the emotional hangover she had aft…
01:10:16 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
#741 Sexually Abusive Mothers - Jennifer Westcott
Jennifer Westcott is a therapist who, as an adult, began to recall sexual abuse by her mother. She and Paul both dig deep to talk about maternal sexual abuse and why it’s so difficult for people to u…
02:06:11 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
#740 Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Dr. Blaise Aguirre
Dr. Blaise Aguirre is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) with a particular focus on borderline personality disorder…
01:48:35 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
#739 Male Body Images Issues - Ryan Sheldon
Ryan Sheldon (@RealRyanSheldon) is a speaker, a model, an eating disorder advocate, and the author of F*ckboys Are Boring: A Gay Man’s Guide to Dating (For Everyone). He shares excerpts from his book…
01:20:37 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
#738 Best Of: Jeanie Bergen - Parentless at 3
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 now has gu…
02:06:42 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
#737 Rebuilding A Life From Scratch - Matt D
Matt D. is a good friend of Paul's who shares his story of starting over after a divorce, a career change, and getting sober—while owning a weed store in California. He also talks about the surprisin…
01:06:40 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
#736 Transgenerational Trauma - Jen Soriano
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, including…
01:39:16 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
#735 Career Transition, Passive Aggression & Inner Critics - Phil Stark
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 relationsh…
00:59:03 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
#734 School Pressure, Being Gay & Boundaries: Jon-Luc
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 struggl…
01:27:27 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
#733 The Minimalists
Joshua Fields and T.K. Coleman,(@TheMinimalists) better known as two parts of the popular trio, The Minimalists, join Paul to talk about how all the clutter in our lives can affect our minds and offe…
01:17:50 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
#732 Paul's Cousin & Their Family Tree - Paul Barnard
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 years old.…
01:14:28 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
#731 Living Well With Bipolar - Dr David Miklowitz
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 distinc…
01:18:27 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
#730 - Rethinking Our Relationship To Money - Elizabeth Husserl
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 aspects of …
01:04:39 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
#729 The Ripples Of Childhood Abuse - Nathan Spiteri
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 years. He…
01:35:06 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
#728 Childless By Choice - Dr Kate Truitt Returns
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 stories tha…
01:33:24 |
Fri 27 Dec 2024
#727 Jason O'Mara - Men & Depression
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 on men’s …
01:27:13 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
#726 Fantasy, Shyness & Low Self-Esteem - Rebecca W
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.
This epi…
01:04:51 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
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