Mental Illness Happy Hour

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#608 BiPolar - Kimi Culp Sep 09, 2022

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Kimi Culp is a TV and film producer and the host of the podcast, All The Wiser (@AllTheWiserPod) She opens up about her own bipolar diagnosis as well as her father’s and how being honest and outspoken about having bipolar changed her life in the best way.

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#607 Adoption, Autism, BPD - Lacey Sep 02, 2022

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Lacey was adopted by an emotionally abusive family at the age of two. She shares her experience with that pain as well as how she navigates living with autism, ADHD, and BPD. She also shares her story of life in the military–which included its own trauma.

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#606 Burnout or Depression? Keith Miller LCSW Aug 26, 2022

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Keith Miller is a clinical social worker, author, and podcaster (The Soul of Life Show). He shares about caregiver burnout, identifying depression, the physical aspects of emotions, his focus on DBR therapy, and his life growing up Baptist and eventually leaving the church.

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#605 Anonymous Confessions Aug 19, 2022

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Paul reads surveys filled out by listeners (anonymously) sharing the deepest parts of themselves; their struggles, victories, fears, loves, traumas, kinks, memories, hopes, mistakes and dreams.

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#604 Anxiety & PTSD - Michael Brose Aug 12, 2022

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Michael Brose is a former police officer turned recovery counselor. He’s also one of Paul’s support group friends. He talks about what led him to become a cop, how it magnified his anxiety, hyper-vigilance, and addiction, and how he finally got out.

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#603 - Bittersweetness - Susan Cain Aug 05, 2022

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Susan Cain is a best-selling author and someone who thinks very deliberately about emotions. She sits down with Paul and shares her journey from attorney to writer and how her appreciation for melancholy turned into her new book, Bittersweet.

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#602 Best Of - Schizophrenia - Dr Elyn Saks Jul 29, 2022

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Originally aired in 2015. 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. We will be back with new episodes in August.

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#601 Best Of - Conflict - Randy Olea Jul 22, 2022

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Originally aired in 2013. 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 getting “struck sober” and how he has evolved into the man his father never was. We will be back with new episodes in August.

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#600 Best Of - Baron Vaughn Jul 15, 2022

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Originally aired in 2013, 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 artistic voice, and his nerdish, turbulent childhood especially with his alcoholic mother.

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Twitter @BaronVonBlaq

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#599 Best Of - Pedophile Ring Survivor - Anneke Lucas Jul 08, 2022

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Originally aired in 2015. Sold by her mother to a pedophile ring led by powerful politicians and aristocrats in her native Belgium, Anneke’s story is about more than just survival. She talks about the ways her PTSD affects her life but also about the empathy she learned at a young age that inspires her to teach yoga in prisons, especially fellow survivors of sex-trafficking. Anneke has a book out entitled Quest For Love: Memoir of a Child Sex Slave

More about Anneke:

website: https://annekelucas.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4FV3982

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/anneke.lucas/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnekeLucas2/

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