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
Episode 180: Jill Morley
At 40, Jilll took up competitive boxing to work through the childhood PTSD caused by her mother's physical abuse. She shares about living with depression, aiding other female fighters and making her…
01:43:19 |
Fri 04 Jul 2014
Episode 179: Tyler W.
The 26 year-old law student talks about his struggles with addiction especially bulimia, assuming the role of caretaker for his alcoholic parents when he was a child, a jarring move to a racially int…
01:53:07 |
Fri 27 Jun 2014
Episode 178: Anna Akana
The performer/writer/director best known for her popular YouTube channel opens up about growing up with a Japanese father and Filipino mother where mistakes were not tolerated. She also shares about…
01:54:21 |
Fri 20 Jun 2014
Episode 177: Michael H.
The 25 year-old Taiwanese American shares about his co-dependency, painful breakups and perfectionism as well as the irony that as a trained therapist he knows he should establish boundaries with his…
01:51:57 |
Fri 13 Jun 2014
Episode 176: Bernadette
The 36 year-old mother shares about the middle-class version of Cops that was her childhood, her Borderline Personality Disorder, suicide attempts and the drinking problem she can't bring herself to …
01:56:39 |
Fri 06 Jun 2014
Episode 174: Andrea Schaeffer
The Canadian listener talks about the masks she feels she had to wear to deal with childhood sadness, being raped at 16, and experiencing postpartum depression. She talks about the support groups & …
02:00:20 |
Fri 23 May 2014
Episode 173: Julian F
His childhood was a flurry of moving all over Europe and South America, his parents treated him like "Good Cop Bad Cop" and he has no idea why he felt like a "little pervert" as a kid. They talk abo…
01:59:27 |
Fri 16 May 2014
Episode 172: Lynette Carolla
The mother, wife and podcaster(For Crying Out Loud) talks about being pushed to be a child actor, the psychosis that mental illness brought upon her brother and mother, abusing Vicodin in an attempt …
02:07:38 |
Fri 09 May 2014
Episode 171: Tom Kramer
The writer/director (Fridays, Curb Your Enthusiasm) shares about being sexually shamed, his fear of people and the drug and alcohol battles that took the great career he had been given at 20 and burn…
02:03:54 |
Fri 02 May 2014
Episode 170: Christina Pazsitzky
The standup/actress shares about being the only child of parents who fled Communist Hungary, and after their divorce absorbing the brunt of her mothers mental illness (Borderline Personality Disorder…
01:53:28 |
Fri 25 Apr 2014
Episode 169: Mini Ep - Guilt w/Dr. Guy Winch
Clinical psychologist Dr. Guy Winch shares some insights and tips on how to deal with guilt, plus some listener surveys.
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00:53:31 |
Mon 21 Apr 2014
Episode 168: Sexual Confusion - Kira
The 29 year-old shares about the shame of having intrusive thoughts imagining sex with children; getting blackout drunk to the point of violence and making peace with coming out as a lesbian after ye…
02:11:58 |
Fri 18 Apr 2014
Mini Ep #167 - Failure w/Dr. Guy Winch
Clinical psychologist Dr. Guy Winch shares some insights and tips for dealing with failure. Guy is the author of the book Emotional First Aid.
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00:32:22 |
Mon 14 Apr 2014
Episode 166: Tracy Irvine
The 40 year-old corporate recruiter shares about growing up with a sick mother (ALS) whose needs overshadowed hers, losing both her parents in her teens, using food for comfort, surviving an abusive …
01:44:31 |
Fri 11 Apr 2014
Mini Episode 165: Low Self-Esteem (voted #4 ep of 2014)
Clinical psychologist Dr. Guy Winch shares some insights and tips on dealing with low self-esteem.
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00:39:37 |
Mon 07 Apr 2014
Episode 164: Natasha L.
After Natasha's mother died she discovered her diaries. What she read was horrifying to the average person but had the opposite effect on her. She shares about her mother's apparent Borderline Pers…
01:47:11 |
Fri 04 Apr 2014
#163 Mini-Ep: Loneliness w/Dr. Guy Winch (voted #6 ep of 2014)
Clinical psychologist Dr. Guy Winch shares some insights and tips on dealing with loneliness. Guy is the author or the book Emotional First Aid. Paul also reads some surveys over his dog's objecti…
00:28:23 |
Tue 01 Apr 2014
Episode 162: Monica LIttle
The mother and wife of a combat medic talks about her battles with intimacy, anxiety, drug abuse and the family that turned a blind eye to her pedophile grandfather. She also talks about how being r…
02:04:25 |
Fri 28 Mar 2014
Mini-Episode #161: Rejection with Dr. Guy Winch
Clinical psychologist and author of the book Emotional First Aid, Dr. Guy Winch shares some tips and insights on dealing with rejection.
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00:51:04 |
Mon 24 Mar 2014
Episode 160: Parenting Mental Illness
Listener Joy opens up to Paul about raising a child with mental illness, especially her teenage daughter's Reactive Attachment Disorder, depression, the social stigma, the healthcare system and how t…
01:55:15 |
Fri 21 Mar 2014
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