The Mental Illness Spotlight Podcast
1) Shanon Williams: Selfcare Housekeeping
On today's show, we are speaking with Shanon Williams, local activist and the founder of Selfcare Housekeeping, a mental health home care service. Shanon discusses how her personal experience with tra...Show More
2) Podcast Break: Anonymous Open Mic Episode
Hi everyone! We're taking a brief break this month to get things settled in Pittsburgh, but we wanted to bring you selected performances from one of our foundational programs, Anonymous Open Mic. An...Show More
3) Rachel Kallem Whitman: Owning Your Crazy
On today's show, we are speaking with Dr. Rachel Kallem Whitman, a professor, advocate, and writer on mental health, mental illness, and disability. Rachel discusses what it's like working in academia...Show More
4) Mike McCarthy: Working in the Mental Health System with Lived Experience
We're back for season two! This season, we will be exploring perspectives "outside" mental health - featuring activists and advocates in the Pittsburgh area. On today's show, we are speaking with Mik...Show More
5) Borderline Personality Disorder: It's Like Falling on Your Keyboard All At Once
Borderline Personality Disorder is one of the most stigmatized and misunderstood mental illnesses today - which is why weâre going to speak openly about living with it! Join Inside Our Minds as our pa...Show More
Borderline Personality Disorder: It's Like Falling on Your Keyboard All At Once
1:09:53 | Sep 2nd, 2017
6) Eating Disorders: "You're Really Skinny... But Not In a Good Way."
âYouâre really skinny.â âThanks!â âI donât mean that in a good way.â âEating a candy bar put a smile on my face. Eating became my comfort.â Eating disorders receive a lot of media attention, and oft...Show More
7) Anxiety: The Hundred Million Ways It Can Go Wrong (Raw Audio)
We apologize for the audio quality of this episode! We're releasing the raw audio still, because we want you to hear our panelists' stories. We'll be back to our normal format next month. Everyone h...Show More
8) Depression: Making Every Day Just a Little Bit Harder
Tolstoy, Dickens, Hemingway, Woolf â depression is often romanticized as an artistsâ disease that inspires great creativity. However, âno one wants to be around a âDebbie Downerâ all the time.â From w...Show More
9) Bipolar Disorder: We Play Life on Hard Mode
From cycling through âfeeding the beastâ in the euphoria of mania, to dragging through depression as a âblanket burrito,â join Inside Our Minds as our panelists, Fred and Brittney, discuss their perso...Show More