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Mental Illness Happy Hour

The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast is a weekly conversation between host Paul Gilmartin and a guest about all the battles we have in our heads, from medically diagnosed conditions to everyday compulsive negative thinking. Paul and the guests reveal their shames, secrets, fears and loves. Guests range from artists to listeners, to the occasional doctor. The podcast was created to let those who sufferer know they're not alone and to educate and entertain those who don't.

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Latest Episodes

  • Episode 77: A Day of You the Listener

    Released 09.07.12

    Paul shares a single day of feeback from the listeners, including various surveys from the website, fears, loves and several emails.

  • Episode 76: Kerri Kenney-Silver

    Released 08.31.12

    The comedian/actress/musician opens up about her childhood, the impact of her parents' divorce, her obsessive worrying, her aborted engagement to a crack addict and what she learned about herself.

  • Episode 75: Todd Sawyer

    Released 08.24.12

    The stand-up comedian, podcaster and longtime friend opens up about everything.  From his abusive mother, his 5x married father, his summer of daily acid trips, his odd wet dream about his aunt and much, much more.

  • Episode 74: Brenda Colonna

    Released 08.17.12

    The standup comedian and Long Island native opens up about her struggle to live with various mental illnesses, especially PTSD caused by childhood and adolescent sexual abuse.

  • Episode 73: Listener Derrick Jackson

    Released 08.10.12

    African-American and gay, Derrick has always struggled with the fact that he doesn't put his mother on a pedestal.

  • Episode 72: Nadereh Fanaiean (exiled Iranian Freedom Fighter)

    Released 08.03.12

    A former Marxist revolutionary who fled her native Iran after the capture of her husband in the mid 80's, she eventually settled in San Francisco and became a nurse at a psychiatric hospital.

  • Episode 71: Dave Anthony

    Released 07.27.12

    The comedian, writer and podcaster talks about being neglected as a child, his self-sabotaging and the out of control anger that almost destroyed his life.

  • Episode 70: Listener Lily

    Released 07.20.12

    Lily and Paul talk about sexual dysfunction can sometimes not present itself until years into a committed relationship and the necessity in dealing with uncomfortable or painful feelings to achieve intimacy.

  • Episode 69: Dwayne Perkins

    Released 07.13.12

    Born to a fifteen year-old mother in the projects of Brooklyn, Dwayne was a fighter.   Strong-willed, rebellious and intelligent, he eventually harnessed his temper so it could work in his favor.

  • Episode 68: Listener Simone

    Released 07.06.12

    When she was eight, there were whipsers in the neighborhood about her father and what he did.   She could never get the truth from her mother.

  • Episode 67: Chris Hardwick

    Released 06.29.12

    The podcaster/comic/host/writer/entreprenuer opens up about finally using his obsessive nerd brain for constructive instead of destructive pursuits.

  • Episode 66: Michaela Watkins

    Released 06.22.12

    The bitter divorce between her sexually repressed mother and left-brained mathmetician father who openly complained of his ex-wife's frigidity left an indelible mark on Michaela's view of sex, intimacy and relationships.

  • Episode 65: Mike Carano

    Released 06.15.12

    The photographer, podcaster and video artist opens up about his debilitating bouts with anger, mistrust of therapy, difficulty in asking for help and chaotic childhood, including spending a year in a cult, and living with a mother so spiteful towards her ...

  • Episode 64: Dr. Jessica Zucker 2

    Released 06.08.12

    Dr. Jessica Zucker returns to help Paul and the listeners.  Topics of course involve Moms and boundaries, but also the benefits of letting ourselves be fully known and sticking up for ourselves when nobody else will.

  • Episode 63: Lauren Tyree

    Released 06.01.12

    Raised by strict Evangelical parents who struggled to put food on the table, Lauren's story is about what happens when dogmatic parents push their child scholastically (Vassar), but that critical thinking leads to the questioning of her belief and ultimat...

  • Episode 62: Joe Matarese

    Released 05.25.12

    The standup comedian (<em>Chelsea Lately</em>, <em>Late Show with David Letterman,</em> <em>The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,</em> <em>Comedy Central Presents</em>: and <em>Howard Stern</em>) talks about his New Jersey Italian roots, his hair-trigge...

  • Episode 61: Bald Bryan Bishop

    Released 05.18.12

    Known as "Bald Bryan" to Adam Carolla listeners, Bryan Bishop's life is actually a mental illness success story.

  • Episode 60: Jamie Denbo

    Released 05.11.12

    Comedic actress/improvisor/writer/podcaster Jamie Denbo talks about growing up as an only child, born to Jewish parents whose lives, culture and ancestors she feels are informed by fear.

  • Episode 59: Phil Hendrie

    Released 05.04.12

    The groundbreaking radio personality opens up about the childhood and adolescent pain that informs his stable of highly detailed, irreverent character voices.

  • Episode 58: Dr. Jessica Zucker #1 - Porn, PPD, Moms & Paul's Painful Truth

    Released 04.27.12

    Dr. Jessica Zucker graces the show as our first mental health expert. &nbsp;And she does not dissapoint.

  • Episode 57: Sklar Brothers

    Released 04.20.12

    We talk to the comedy duo about the drawbacks and benefits of being identical twins; how they're alike and how they're different.

  • Episode 56: Morgan Murphy

    Released 04.13.12

    Bouncing from family to family and always being the new girl at school forced her to adapt and gave her experiences to draw on as a writer (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, 2 Broke Girls).

  • Episode 55: Blaine Capatch

    Released 04.06.12

    The comedian and former writing partner of Patton Oswalt (Mad TV) didn't grow up with abuse or tragedy, but his mental and emotional battles are shared by most of us.

  • Episode 54: Meghan Parkansky

    Released 03.30.12

    Hear what happened when this listener, a popular Wisconsin farm girl moved to the big city and crippling anxiety set in.

  • Episode 52: Sexually Inappropriate Parents (w/Barbara & Steve)

    Released 03.16.12

    Incestuous or inappropriate behavior by parents isn't always easy to define. &nbsp; Paul's friend "Barbara" and her boyfriend "Steve" (both using pseudomnyms) talk about their childhoods and the issues they struggle with especially using sex for power ins...

  • Episode 51: Kristine Keese

    Released 03.09.12

    The Holocaust survivor, mother, teacher and activist reflects on her coping mechanisms, her ability to find joy, feelings unique to motherhood, her childhood in Nazi occupied Warsaw as a Jewish 7 year-old, and the special bond she forged with her mother a...

  • Episode 50: Steve Agee

    Released 03.02.12

    The comic actor (<em>The Sara Silverman Program</em>) and writer (<em>Jimmy Kimmel</em>) talks to Paul about his conservative upbringing, the teenage rebellion that landed him in military school, his agorophobia and the odd manifestation of his panic attacks.&nbsp;

  • Episode 49: Nikki Glaser

    Released 02.24.12

    The standup comedian (<em>Last Comic Standing</em>, <em>The Tonight Show</em>) and podcaster (<em>You Had to Be There</em>) opens up about hitting bottom with anorexia as a teen, only to discover ten years later, her food issues haven't disappeared.

  • Episode 48: Jesse Perez

    Released 02.17.12

    The former East L.A. gang member has been dodging bullets for years - sometimes literally sometimes figuratively.

  • Episode 47: Ru

    Released 02.10.12

    Paul's friend Ru stops by to talk about the deep-rooted fear she has of men abandoning her. &nbsp; From her absentee Air Force dad to her broken poet boyfriend living in a storage shelter, she reveals the painful choices she has made to try to get men to ...

  • Episode 46: Mark Teich

    Released 02.03.12

    The actor/singer/comedian is best known for performing musical comedy with Stephen Lynch, most notably selling out Carnegie Hall in 2009.

  • Episode 45: Ronnie Schiller

    Released 01.27.12

    She was named Ronnie at birth by her bipolar mother who cared so little, she chose the name of the baby's father.

  • Episode 44: Mike Schmidt

    Released 01.20.12

    The writer, stand-up and pocaster (The 40 Year-Old Boy Podcast) and Paul get into the ins and outs of rage and its tempting oblivion, Mike's weight battles (he tipped the scales at 505 lbs at one point), his Dad issues (Mom described him as a Monster) and...

  • Episode 43: Meghan Daum

    Released 01.13.12

    The <em>L.A. Times</em> columnist talks with Paul about growing up and later rebelling in a household where music and academia were everything.

  • Episode 42: Rob Delaney

    Released 01.06.12

    Twitter superstar/comedian/actor/singer Rob Delaney opens up to Paul about his hilariously horrifying alcoholic bottom, his crushing bouts of depression and how he has adapted to live with might have killed most people.

  • Episode 41: Erin Whitehead

    Released 12.30.11

    Which came first the hypochondria or the condition? &nbsp;The improvisor/actor (UCB Theatre Los Angeles) talks to Paul about the pain of losing her father and the plethora of physical pains she experiences that may or may not be self-induced.

  • Episode 41: Erin

    Released 12.30.11

    Which came first the hypochondria or the condition? &nbsp;The improvisor/actor talks to Paul about the pain of losing her father and the plethora of physical pains she experiences that may or may not be self-induced.

  • Episode 40: Martin Willis

    Released 12.23.11

    Martin's southern Maine family has been dealing in antiques for decades. &nbsp;Not to mention pent-up rage and mental illness.

  • Episode 39: Alison Rosen

    Released 12.16.11

    Writer, performer, t.v. host and sidekick on the Adam Carolla podcast, Alison has a life filled with successes.

  • Episode 38: Mike Eagle

    Released 12.09.11

    Not many rappers list They Might Be Giants as their primary musical influence. &nbsp;But Mike isn't like most rappers.

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