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
#243 Melissa Villasenor
The 27 year-old comic/impressionist (America's Got Talent) opens up people-pleasing, cutting, isolating, creating, bombing, tattoos, the comfort of solitary hobbies and the struggle to practice self-…
01:57:42 |
Fri 18 Sep 2015
#242 Elyn Saks on Schizophrenia & Mental Health Law
The USC professor of law, psychiatry and psychology (in addition to a PhD in Psychoanalysis) talks about her history of schizophrenia, her multiple hospitalizations and how she has learned to manage …
02:04:20 |
Fri 11 Sep 2015
#241 Glenn Rockowitz
The comedian, writer (Rodeo in Joliet and Saturday Night Live) and voice actor opens up about his ongoing battles with cancer, how being told 20 years ago that he had "three months to live" changed h…
02:21:36 |
Fri 04 Sep 2015
#240 Psychiatrist Dr Melanie Watkins
The board-certified psychiatrist answers questions about personality disorders, medication, problems in the mental health system and mental health in the black community.
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02:29:52 |
Fri 28 Aug 2015
#239 Samantha Finkelstein
The registered dietitian shares about the huge importance that was placed on food growing up in her family, how she used it to soothe instead of finding a healthy way to express her emotions and how …
02:20:52 |
Fri 21 Aug 2015
#238 Jason Ickovitz
The Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist opens up about the verbal abuse he endured as a kid from his father who pushed him to excel in baseball, and how therapy not only helped him cope but made h…
01:34:38 |
Fri 14 Aug 2015
#238 Gladys A.
The 26 year-old adoptee (from Paraguay) shares about growing up with an emotionally disturbed sibling and single mom, experiencing racism at her all-white school, and turning to porn and escorting to…
02:38:13 |
Fri 07 Aug 2015
#235 Peter Hesen
The 61 year-old talks about loneliness, the painful depths his addictions took him to and the chance he has in sobriety to be the kind of father he never had.
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01:54:28 |
Fri 24 Jul 2015
#234 Raised by Hoarders w/Michelle F
27 year-old Michelle F shares about being raised by a shopaholic mom and a father (and grandparents) who hoarded.
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01:52:11 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
#233 JoAnn Buttaro
JoAnn shares about her path to recovery after being victimized by serial rapist Jeffrey Marsalis (dubbed the Match.com rapist). She sheds light on how she went from her lowest low to participating i…
02:23:42 |
Fri 10 Jul 2015
#232 Mary O'Hara
The first pupil from her inner-city high school to attend Cambridge, the 42 year-old journalist/author shares about the poverty, violence and dysfunction that defined her childhood in West Belfast, N…
02:34:47 |
Fri 03 Jul 2015
#231 Lisa Richards
The licensed clinical social worker and author of Dear Mallory: Letters to a Teenage Girl Who Killed Herself shares about the loss of her 18 year-old daughter to suicide.
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02:06:20 |
Fri 26 Jun 2015
#230 Raised in Scientology: Derek Bloch
The 28 year-old talks about being raised in the Church of Scientology by a narcissistic father and passive mother. He details the abuse inflicted by their "Sea Org" starting when he was 13, how he r…
02:03:18 |
Fri 19 Jun 2015
#229 Sheila & Kim
The lifelong friends join Paul to talk about supporting each other through their issues which include: alcoholism, food addiction, IBS and codependency.
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02:10:47 |
Fri 12 Jun 2015
#228 Shootout Survivor Dan Smith
The former armored car driver shares about the PTSD that came in the wake of a shootout that almost killed him and what it means to be masculine.
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02:08:06 |
Fri 05 Jun 2015
#227 Cassie Sneider
The writer and graphic artist (and karaoke DJ) talks with Paul about her parents gambling and shopping addictions, being bullied, becoming violent in her 20s and eventually finding therapy and suppor…
02:49:16 |
Fri 29 May 2015
#226 Therapist Kati Morton #2
Therapist Kati Morton returns to answer listener questions.
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01:56:41 |
Fri 22 May 2015
#225 Joe and June
The Israeli couple talk about their childhoods, how they try to support each other and finding emotional and sexual satisfaction given their individual issues.
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02:11:43 |
Fri 15 May 2015
#224 Drew Monson
The 19 year-old YouTube entertainer commiserates with Paul about OCD, depression, jealousy, naps, love and internet trolls.
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01:55:20 |
Fri 08 May 2015
#223 Heather Marlowe
The writer/performer opens up about being drugged and raped and the pressure she has been putting on the San Francisco police department to process the thousands of warehoused rape kits whose DNA cou…
02:11:31 |
Fri 01 May 2015
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