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
#222 Terri Hartman
The 54 year-old shares about her battles with fibromyalgia, her physically abusive mother, how her illness affects her relationships, her anxieties and how expressing her emotions helped ease the int…
01:49:45 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
#221 Anna David
The author/podcaster opens up about her sexually inappropriate narcissistic father, getting sober from her cocaine addiction, fear of intimacy and vacillating between thinking that she's "the shit" o…
02:13:12 |
Fri 17 Apr 2015
#220 Matty McVarish
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Matty could no longer bear the silence he saw around him, so he started Road to Change and walked 10,000 miles across Europe to raise awareness and in the proce…
02:33:28 |
Fri 10 Apr 2015
#219 Kelly M
The 24 year-old shares about identifying as asexual and gender-fluid as well as the hurdle of coming to terms with a childhood that wasn't overtly abusive, just void of connection. They also talk ab…
02:28:54 |
Fri 03 Apr 2015
#218 Jensen Karp
The writer/ex-rapper/entrepreneur/podcaster talks about living with Obsessive Thoughts Disorder, being molested by a 19 year-old female when he was 13 and the ways his disorder interpreted the trauma…
02:11:04 |
Fri 27 Mar 2015
#217 Jeanie Bergen
The 30 year-old writer talks about being parentless at 3 and the complex relationship with her mentally disabled sister whom she now has guardianship of. She and Paul bond over suicidal thoughts, is…
02:06:18 |
Fri 20 Mar 2015
#216 John H
The 25 year-old discusses his Generalized Anxiety Disorder, social awkwardness, difficulty making eye-contact, compulsive overeating, abusive ex-wife and the possibility of being on the autism spectr…
02:17:57 |
Fri 13 Mar 2015
#215 Roxanne R.
The 57 year-old incest survivor talks about growing up in a family "where being born female was considered a moral failure". She also talks about her struggles with repressed memories and possible D…
02:21:29 |
Fri 06 Mar 2015
#214 Therapist Kati Morton
The licensed therapist and Paul talk about eating disorders, emotional intimacy and how to support friends/loved ones while also practicing self-care and establishing boundaries.
See omnystudio.com/l…
02:00:15 |
Fri 27 Feb 2015
#213 Tiffany Haddish
The comedian/dancer/actor shares about her mother's descent into mental illness (schizophrenia), the abuse she suffered at her hands, the year she spent in the foster care system and the strength she…
02:08:03 |
Fri 20 Feb 2015
#212 Dean Trippe
The comic book artist and father talks about the role superheroes have played in helping his imagination and creativity heal the trauma he experienced as a child, and trying to break the cycle of aba…
02:06:59 |
Fri 13 Feb 2015
#211 Maggie Mull
The 28 year-old writer shares about being unemployed and an only child, her fear of abandonment, being born with club feet, body and sexuality shame and the depression that often makes everything fee…
02:29:17 |
Fri 06 Feb 2015
#210 Arianna C
The 40 year-old shares about her traumatic upbringing (incest, religious extremism, abandonment) and the ways her body and mind learned to cope; hallucinating, going numb and following strangers and …
01:59:14 |
Fri 30 Jan 2015
#208 Renee M.
The Hispanic, 31 year-old PhD shares about the downside of raising herself up by her bootstraps; growing up knowing she couldn't depend on her passive mother or gambler father, and now finding her em…
02:17:05 |
Fri 16 Jan 2015
#206 Listener Confessions 2
Listeners share their deepest darkest struggles and darkly hilarious "awfulsome" moments via email and surveys. Also a contemplation on the life and death of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn.
See omny…
01:45:06 |
Fri 02 Jan 2015
#205 Ian Gutoskie
The 37 year-old Canadian comic discusses his two psychiatric hospitalizations, his Bipolar II (with rapid cycling), how sports helped him channel his anger about his abusive dad and what he does to s…
02:10:15 |
Fri 26 Dec 2014
#204 Lauren Ashley Bishop (voted #2 ep of 2014)
The 37 year-old comedian shares about the three traumas that led her to finally seek somatic therapy for her disassociating subtype of PTSD, how she's healing and the tools she uses to cope today.
Se…
02:47:19 |
Fri 19 Dec 2014
#203 Oliver Sykes
Paul's 41 year-old friend talks (and laughs) about his arrested emotional development and struggle to be an adult after a childhood where he often had to parent his parents because of their addiction…
01:44:31 |
Fri 12 Dec 2014
#202 Gillian Callahan Chachere
The therapist intern opens up about the rarely-discussed trauma of miscarriage, the lack of traditional grief support in our culture, and the surprising results she got from seeking an alternative he…
02:00:11 |
Fri 05 Dec 2014
#201 Can't Stop Her Addictions w/Noemi
The 24 year-old first generation Mexican-American is currently unable to stop her anorexia, bulimia or blackout drinking. She shares what her struggle is like and about the abusive ex-boyfriend whos…
01:45:54 |
Fri 28 Nov 2014
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