Mental Illness Happy Hour
"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
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 108 minutes
- Episodes
- 662
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Couple Troubles - Jen Elmquist LMFT
Couple's therapist Jen Elmquist sits down with Paul and answers questions about the most common mistakes and hurdles couples face and offers advice on how to value your partner and relationship witho…
01:47:33 |
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Network Anchor Panic Attack - Dan Harris
Imagine having a panic attack live on-air while anchoring ABC news. That happened to Dan Harris in 2004. The Nightline anchor, Good Morning America Weekend Co-anchor, war correspondent and author (10…
02:10:17 |
Fri 12 Jan 2018
My Fair Junkie - Amy Dresner
The author (My Fair Junkie) details her jaw-dropping and often hilarious descent from a nice (but spoiled) Jewish girl from Beverly Hills to shooting coke into her neck, bottoming out on meth and sex…
02:06:06 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
Asperger's, Nerd Culture & Anime - Luke Palmer
The young writer/director (2 Kawaii 4 Comfort) shares about the intersection of people on the autism spectrum (especially Asperger's) and nerd culture especially anime. He opens up about his diagnosi…
02:09:52 |
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Born Into A Notorious Criminal Family - Nicole Y.
Born mixed-race to a white prostitute mother and a black, pimp father, Nicole grew up belonging to one of the most notorious families in the Boston underworld. Having seen and experienced unimaginabl…
02:28:24 |
Fri 22 Dec 2017
Military PTSD & Sexism - Marc & Sonja Raciti
Marc and Sonja Raciti both served in the military; he as a medic, she as a psychologist. They talk about PTSD myths and the PTSD he struggles with from fearing for his life to seeing unspeakable carn…
02:43:12 |
Fri 15 Dec 2017
High School Tornado/Author Seamus Kirst
In a live show recorded in Oakland, the 26 year-old writer (Shitfaced) discusses the loving but strained atmosphere growing up and his teenage years attempting suicide, drinking his way to rehabs and…
02:04:07 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
The Absent Father Wound - Daria Polatin
The award-winning playwright, t.v. writer (Jack Ryan)and author (Devil in Ohio) opens up about feeling abandoned by her father and the effect it has had on how she views herself, her place in it and …
02:00:28 |
Fri 01 Dec 2017
Alt Depression Treatments - Shane Mauss
The standup/podcaster (Here We Are podcast) shares about taking unconventional approaches to his battles with depression and hopelessness. He opens up about his kind but very religious and uncommunic…
02:15:14 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
Kelly's Shame and Secrets
Growing up Kelly McCarron's home life wasn't chaotic or abusive but she still struggles mentally and emotionally. After filling out the show's Shame and Secrets survey she reads it aloud, touching on…
02:09:22 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Success-Obsessed Parents & The Scapegoat Child
30 year-old Mary M. left America for Europe to escape not only an American culture that was wearing on her but a family where she was tired of being the scapegoat to her golden-child brother. An all…
02:21:21 |
Fri 10 Nov 2017
#355 Afraid To Leave The House - Sam Harriman
Panic attacks, agoraphobia, anxiety and depression had brought Sam to a very dark place a few years ago and he decided he needed help. Bit by bit he began to see how his childhood and negative self-b…
01:44:19 |
Thu 02 Nov 2017
#354 Surviving Suicide - Kelechi Ubozoh
The 32 year-old poet, mental health advocate and daughter of a Nigerian immigrant father and Brooklyn mother opens up to Paul about her emotional and mental turnaround after years of feeling suicidal…
02:22:16 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
#353 Andy Kindler - OCD, ADD, Twitter Fights & More
Paul's longtime friend, standup (Letterman) and actor (Everybody Loves Raymond) shares about his struggles with OCD, ADD and feeling the need to control people's opinions about his behavior even afte…
01:36:06 |
Fri 20 Oct 2017
#352 Caitlin Doughty: Death, OCD & Being a Mortician
The mortician, TED Talk speaker and author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, talks about her childhood OCD and fascination with death as a result of witnessing a tragedy, how she'd like to see the American…
02:13:02 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
#351 Fears, Loves, Filth & Mortality w Greg Behrendt
The comedian, co-author of He's Just Not That Into You and longtime friend of Paul drops by to lighten his day up. They laugh at their fears, loves and thoughts about mortality and getting older.
Che…
01:31:16 |
Thu 05 Oct 2017
#350 Intrusive Thoughts OCD aka "Pure OCD" - Kimberley Quinlan LMFT
Specializing in treating clients whose self-judgement of their thoughts results in obsession and compulsions, Kimberley sits down with Paul and talks about the different forms OCD can take and how to…
02:06:42 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Manipulative or Coercive Sex
Paul's support group friend Meredith opens up about being raised by parents who lacked a sense of privacy or sexual boundaries; being sexualized by her father, mother (who has a long history of "acci…
03:07:50 |
Fri 22 Sep 2017
#348 Manhattan Party Girl - Fielding Edlow
Raised in financial privilege but emotional poverty, the actor/writer/standup reflects on her "don't give a fuck" eating disorder, drug and alcohol years trying to stuff the real feelings of abandonm…
02:08:42 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
#347 Paul Rust - Anxiety, OCD & Embarrassment
The actor/writer/comedian known for the Netflix show Love, the movie Inglourious Basterds and IFC's Comedy Bang! Bang! opens up about his battles with anxiety, OCD, taking on other people's emotions,…
02:00:02 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
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