Mental Illness Happy Hour

The actress (Hung, True Blood, Date Night, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911) and solo theatre artist (Bust) opens up about growing up in a family uncomfortable with emotion, her food and weight issues and the manipulative, alcoholic 23 year-old who...

Nerds get bullied - but nerds who are also "spazzes" as Dan describes his younger self, get the worst of it.   The comedian/writer opens up about the abuse he endured as well as the tactics one can employ to minimize it.   He and Paul talk...

Paul shares a single day of feeback from the listeners, including various surveys from the website, fears, loves and several emails.   Topics include the cloudiness of depression, a 13 year-old boy who was seduced by two of his friends' mothers,...

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.  People know Kerri from Reno 911, MTV's The...

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.  Do highly disciplined...

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.  She and Paul discuss having compassion for oneself and how to learn...

African-American and gay, Derrick has always struggled with the fact that he doesn't put his mother on a pedestal.   Quite the opposite, he doesn't feel safe around her.  He opens up about her mental illness, her sexualizing him at an early...

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.  The fact that we never even discuss what she has...

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.  Dave has appeared on The Office, Entourage and in the film Recount.  He has written...

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.  Lily also talks about her bulimia,...