Episodes 486
Avg. Duration 26m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (457)
Since Nov 2016
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Award-winning weekly podcast that approaches psychology and mental health in an accessible way. Listen as our host Gabe Howard speaks candidly with experts, celebrities, and other notables to break down complex topics into simpler terms. Listen now and share widely.

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Recent Episodes

Want to Be a Mental Health Worker? Realities of the Front Lines

Jun 11, 2026 21m

Think working in mental health is just sitting and listening? The reality is a chaotic, high volume front line where workers face severe psychological crises every single day. In this episode, our…

Kids These Days: Reimagining Youth Mental Healthcare

May 28, 2026 25m

Is our mental health system helping children or simply getting better at labeling them? With some reports suggesting that 70% of adolescents are struggling with mental health issues, host Gabe Howard…

Defining ‘Normal’: Overdiagnosing — Are We Pathologizing the Human Condition?

May 14, 2026 30m

In this thought-provoking episode, host Gabe Howard sits down with child psychiatrist and author Dr. Sami Timimi to challenge some of the most widely accepted ideas in modern mental health…

Injustice as Trauma: Tackling Systemic Bias in Mental Health Care

Apr 30, 2026 22m

Members of marginalized communities are often told to be "resilient," but how do you bounce back when the system itself is the weight on your shoulders? When policy is the source of the trauma, the…

Why I Miss My Hallucinations with Kit Wallis aka SchizoKitzo

Apr 16, 2026 31m

Most people think "hearing voices" would be a nightmare symptom of mental illness, but for some, it feels more like a friendship. In the medical world, hallucinations and delusions are symptoms to be…

Rock Bottom to a Netflix Documentary: The Philly Captain Shares His Bipolar Journey

Apr 02, 2026 24m

In 2012, Jon McCann was sitting in a car weeping and preparing to end his life. He was struggling with a failing marriage, alcoholism, and a recent bipolar diagnosis that he feared was a "death…

Mental Health Isn’t a Movie: Olivia Nash on Changing Hollywood’s Narrative

Mar 19, 2026 20m

Most movies treat mental health like a plot twist—something dramatic, visible, and easily explained. But real depression and anxiety don’t work that way, and filmmaker Olivia Nash is determined to…

Does ‘Therapy Speak’ Hurt Relationships?

Mar 05, 2026 25m

As therapy language floods social media, more people are associating friends, partners, and co-workers with mental health disorders, spotting “red flags” everywhere, and labeling regular human flaws…

Rethinking Narcissism: What Social Media Gets Wrong

Feb 19, 2026 24m

Narcissism has become one of the most misused words in mental health — and social media hasn’t helped. In this episode, host Gabe Howard is joined by licensed marriage and family therapist Kati…

New Year’s Resolutions Fail Because We Set Them Wrong

Feb 05, 2026 25m

New Year’s resolutions promise hope, but for many people, they quietly deliver shame, stress, and self-blame instead. If resolutions leave you feeling worse about yourself every January, this episode…

Why Negative Self-Talk Feels True (And How to Stop Believing It)

Jan 22, 2026 23m

Negative self-talk isn’t just annoying — it can quietly shape our decisions, confidence, and impact our mental health. But what if silencing that inner critic isn’t about positive affirmations,…

When Faith Hurts: Religion, Trauma, and Mental Health

Jan 08, 2026 28m

For many people, religion is a source of comfort — but what happens when it becomes a source of fear, shame, or lifelong anxiety? In this episode, author Cassandra Brandt shares her deeply personal…

Medication & Schizophrenia: Why “Just Be Med Compliant” Fails

Dec 25, 2025 52m

Medication nonadherence in schizophrenia is often framed as defiance — but that narrative misses the truth and harms the very people it claims to help. Guest host Rachel Star Withers (who lives with…

Early Indicators of Schizophrenia

Dec 18, 2025 42m

Most people imagine schizophrenia beginning with dramatic hallucinations or sudden breaks from reality—but the truth is far more subtle, far more complicated, and far easier to miss. In this special…

Inside Schizophrenia: What Hallucinations Really Feel Like

Dec 11, 2025 57m

Hallucinations are the most recognized—and most misunderstood—symptom of schizophrenia. Movies depict them as dramatic, terrifying commands or cinematic visions, but the lived reality is far more…

Chasing Happiness: Why Success Never Feels Like Enough

Dec 04, 2025 36m

Why does happiness always feel one step away? In this episode, we welcome back positive psychology expert Jodi Wellman to explore why so many of us keep “moving the goalposts” on our own success, and…

How Racial Trauma Shapes Mental Health

Nov 27, 2025 30m

Can a single conversation help rewrite centuries of racial trauma? In this episode, host Gabe Howard sits down with award-winning podcaster Dominic Lawson to explore how America’s racial wounds…

Why They Drank the Kool-Aid: Psychology of Cults

Nov 20, 2025 29m

Most of us think we’d never fall for a cult. We imagine the followers of Jim Jones as naïve, brainwashed, or broken people who “drank the Kool-Aid.” But what if that’s not the truth at all?In this…

Rock & Roll, ADHD, and Anxiety with Musician Harley Olivia

Nov 13, 2025 32m

What happens when a neurodivergent flight attendant trades jet lag for guitar riffs and finds better mental health in the process? In this inspiring and wildly relatable episode, Canadian alt-rock…

Race, Madness & the Complex History of a Jim Crow Asylum

Nov 06, 2025 27m

What can the history of a Jim Crow–era mental asylum teach us about race and mental health today? MSNBC journalist Antonia Hylton joins Gabe Howard to discuss her powerful book “Madness: Race and…

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