British Columbia Schizophrenia Society Features BSP Check out our #PodcastPals – Week 2 Neha Bhattacharya “Look Again: Mental Illness Reexamined” is on a season break at the moment but spreading the word about severe and persistent mental illness is a year-long task. And so we have put together a list of some amazing [...]
Serious Questions About Life with Bipolar Disorder from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “My Mom and Dad didn’t notice anything. My friends didn’t notice anything. It’s not like anybody said to me ‘Oh, my God, Gabe, you have bipolar disorder.’ They all just sincerely thought I was an asshole. ” – [...]
Deep Q’s For an NYC Woman with Schizophrenia from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “When I was at home, I’d be talking to myself and they’re like, What are you laughing at? What is so funny? And I’d be like, Oh, nothing, nothing at all. But yeah, they figured it out. [...]
Trauma and Mental Illness from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “I believe like 99.9999% Of people have experienced some type of trauma. You think you haven’t. The statistics say that not everybody has, but I disagree with that. Everyone’s experienced some type of trauma. – Michelle Hammer People with [...]
Our Take on Gun Violence and Mental Illness from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “They say, well, something’s got to be wrong with you if you shoot a bunch of people. Yeah, I am not going to argue that point. Something’s got to be wrong with you if you shoot a [...]
Packing for a Psychiatric Inpatient Hospital Stay from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Isn’t a pool cue like extremely dangerous in the psych ward? Like, you can’t have any hooks on the walls. But here’s a pool cue?” – Michelle Hammer Being in the psychiatric ward is not the [...]
Crazy Outtakes from the Edge (The Bonus Episode) from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Gabe & Michelle are mentally ill and crazy. It’s a rare combination.” – LISA KINER Bonus episode filled with outtakes and additional information. Put together by the show’s producer and editor, Lisa Kiner. Tune in [...]
One of us Was Naked! Truth or Lie? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “I zone out on a train and I talk to myself on the trains and I was out of it on the train. I kind of left that part out, didn’t I?” – MICHELLE HAMMER [...]
Moving Past Depression (and Other Musings) from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Why don’t we ever talk about how despite our best efforts, we are depressed? Now, let’s figure out how to move forward.” – GABE HOWARD We’ve all heard the adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a [...]
To Therapy or Not to Therapy? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “People don’t want to see a therapist because they think that means they’re crazy. But, who decided that?” – GABE HOWARD Today, we discuss the pros and cons of therapy. What it is, why it works, why [...]
Died From Mental Illness (CW: Suicide) from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “It’s called suicide, but it should be called death from mental illness. We don’t die from “cancer-cide”, as an example.” – GABE HOWARD Last summer, Michelle Hammer’s friend died by suicide. In this heartfelt and vulnerable episode, [...]
Nail Biting and Hair Twirling (Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors) from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Why you gotta turn my nail biting into some big mental thing. I just bite my nails, why are people making it such a big thing?” – MICHELLE HAMMER Nail Biting. Hair Pulling. Skin [...]
Is Mental Illness Trendy Now? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Have we gone so far that the actual definition of mental illness has been lost and it has been sort of retconned to mean different?” – GABE HOWARD “Hauntingly beautiful,” “ride the lightning,” and even famous quotes like [...]
TikTok Star Kody Green Talks Schizophrenic Story Time from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “I talk to people who aren’t there. I’ll have hallucinations pretty much on a weekly basis, even medicated.” – KODY GREEN, The Schizophrenic Hippie Kody Green, better known as the schizophrenic hippie, is a TikTok [...]
Loved One's Distrust Us Due to Our Mental Illness from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “. . . nobody wants to walk through hell, come out the other side and [Have someone] say, Well, but you’re mentally ill. How garbage is that? It’s garbage.” – GABE HOWARD Recovery is [...]
Handling Money with Mental Illness from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Listen, of all the things that you have ever called me, 'old Jewish woman' is frankly the most flattering.” – GABE HOWARD Bipolar and schizophrenia can make handling finances challenging — to say the least. Even famous pop [...]
2 Truths, 1 Bipolar, 1 Schizophrenic, and a Lie from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “It’s called Two Truths And A Lie. It's called A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, And A Podcast. It's not called Blow Sunshine Up Your Ass And Make You Feel Better.” – GABE HOWARD Season two [...]
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