Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
"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
Episodes
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6 snips
Sep 11, 2015 • 2h 4min
#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 it. They also talk about mental health and the law.
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Sep 4, 2015 • 2h 22min
#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 his life and how difficult he finds it to ask for help.
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Aug 28, 2015 • 2h 30min
#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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Aug 21, 2015 • 2h 21min
#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 it morphed into an eating disorder.
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Aug 14, 2015 • 1h 35min
#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 him realize he wanted to be a therapist.
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Aug 7, 2015 • 2h 38min
#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 pay the bills while pursuing her dream of screenwriting. She currently volunteers at the Sex Workers Outreach Project LA http://www.swop-losangeles.org/about-1.html
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Jul 24, 2015 • 1h 54min
#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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Jul 17, 2015 • 1h 52min
#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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Jul 10, 2015 • 2h 24min
#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 in the judicial process and eventually speaking publicly for other survivors.
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Jul 3, 2015 • 2h 35min
#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, Northern Ireland.
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