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 137: Aisha Tyler Live at LAPodfest
The actress/writer/standup/podcaster/tv host joins Paul at LAPodfest in front of a live audience and discusses her outcast status as a child, where her drive comes from, growing to understand her fat…
01:58:27 |
Fri 18 Oct 2013
Episode 136: Listener Juan Medina
The 26 year-old shares about emigrating to the U.S. from Mexico at 8, his fear of his father, "passing" for white, his body dysmorphia and the trouble feeling his feelings rather than shutting down.
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01:41:09 |
Fri 11 Oct 2013
Episode 135: Christina Jasberg
She was raised by a father with Schizo-Affective Disorder who would often break from reality. By her twenties she was battling the same disorder along with bulimia, anorexia and cutting. Hospitaliz…
01:34:26 |
Fri 04 Oct 2013
Episode 134: Transgender Listener "Pidgeon"
He is still physically female but has always identified as a male. He talks about what it means to be genderfluid or genderqueer as well as pansexual and the diffiult road in discovering who he is a…
01:55:02 |
Fri 27 Sep 2013
Episode 133: Adrienne Selbert
Raised by attentive, loving parents she neverlheless grew up with a pervasive feeling of emptiness that she sought to soothe through relationships with men. In her words she, "Burnt her life to the…
01:57:42 |
Fri 20 Sep 2013
Episode 132: Listener Tom Seiniger
The 22 year-old opens up about the guilt and anxiety of growing up feeling like it was his duty to keep his mother out of her depression, even though she was emotionally incestuous with him, how he f…
02:03:50 |
Fri 13 Sep 2013
Episode 131: Co-Narcissism (a mini episode)
Paul reads an article written by Alan Rappoport PhD about Co-Narcissism, which he describes as a result of being raised by one or sometimes two narcissistic parents.
See omnystudio.com/listener for …
00:28:13 |
Mon 09 Sep 2013
Episode 130: Cameron Esposito
The standup comedian (Late Night with Craig Ferguson) opens up about her conservative Catholic upbringing and coming to terms with being lesbian. She and Paul talk about bad porn, being turned on by…
02:19:07 |
Fri 06 Sep 2013
Episode 129: David Hirohama on Counseling Predators
The 3rd generation Japanese-American psychologist shares his experience and observations counseling sexual predators (rapists and child molesters) at Coalinga, a lockdown mental hospital in central C…
02:01:46 |
Fri 30 Aug 2013
Episode 128: Alison Baziak
The 31 year-old listener ponders her low self-esteem, food issues, history of self-mutilation, compulsive spending and suicide attempts when her parents were "nothing but supportive".
See omnystudio.…
01:52:16 |
Fri 23 Aug 2013
Episode 127: Offspring of Holocaust Survivors
Two sons of Holocaust survivors, Michael Rozbruch and Amir Tiles sit down with psychotherapist Joel Schwartz whose grandparents are also survivors and they discuss the ripples of PTSD still felt toda…
01:48:59 |
Fri 16 Aug 2013
Episode 126: Therapist Susan Hagen Helps Paul & Listeners
The therapist who is also in recovery helps Paul and some listeners (via surveys) navigate their discomfort and confusion about their current issues. They discuss the cliched but effective tools of…
02:12:59 |
Fri 09 Aug 2013
Episode 125: Vietnam Vet Randy Olea
A father/brother figure to Paul, the high-school teacher reflects on his Mexican heritage, violent upbringing, tour in Vietnam, stints as a bouncer at a Hell's Angels bar, and a Club Med guide, his g…
02:05:48 |
Fri 02 Aug 2013
Episode 124: Amber Tozer
The comedian (Last Comic Standing, Twitwits) talks her own alcoholism, her dad's awkward foray into lingerie photography, craving her mother's acceptance and understanding her own fluid sexuality.
Se…
01:48:07 |
Fri 26 Jul 2013
Episode 123: Baron Vaughn
The actor/comedian (Conan, Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central) talks about his struggle to feel "authentically black" without betraying who he is, the state of comedy in the black community, honing his art…
02:11:58 |
Fri 19 Jul 2013
Episode 122: Giving Up Her Baby - Valerie
Valerie, a listener talks about the painful decision she made to give her only son up for adoption years ago when she was 18 and living with her Catholic, divorced mother.
See omnystudio.com/listener…
01:51:50 |
Fri 12 Jul 2013
Episode 121: Christian Finnegan
The standup comedian (Comedy Central Presents, Chapelle's Show, Best Week Ever, Countdown with Keith Olberman) opens up about the tragedy and parental mental illness that shaped his childhood and sti…
02:06:17 |
Fri 05 Jul 2013
Episode 120: Aspergers - Listener Louise
Her childhood marked with social stress, being bullied, aggressiveness and severe digestive issues (including Barrett's Esophagus a condition involving acid reflux usually only found in adults) Louis…
02:03:06 |
Fri 28 Jun 2013
Episode 119: Raped By His Sister - Tom
Raised by a Baptist preacher who frequently got run out of town and raped by his older sister starting when he was 4, "Tom" has had a lot to work through. A great episode about working through traum…
01:54:36 |
Fri 21 Jun 2013
Episode 118: Kulap Vilaysack returns!
The actor and podcaster (Who Charted?) returns to the podcast to talk about the struggle to keep a relationship with her mother whose gambling addiction has wreaked havoc on her family's life.
See om…
01:59:44 |
Fri 14 Jun 2013
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