Balancing Support and Boundaries: Navigating Mental Health Challenges in Friendship from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast In today’s episode, Gabe and Michelle discuss the challenges Michelle faces with her friend who exhibits erratic and aggressive behavior, likely due to untreated mental illness. Despite Michelle's continued efforts to support her friend, including texting her mom [...]
Good vs Bad Vulnerability and What’s The Difference? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Today Gabe and Michelle continue openly discussing living with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, respectively, aiming to reduce stigma around mental health. Gabe expresses gratitude for the support that has allowed their podcast to continue, emphasizing the importance of vulnerability in [...]
Navigating Gifts, Criticism, and Friendship While Managing Mental Illness from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Today, Gabe and Michelle share their insecurities and lament that they do not feel more successful. They discuss navigating their challenges, the importance of support, and working to help others through their platform despite personal struggles. Encouraging each other [...]
Can Schizophrenics and Bipolars be Good Pet Owners? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast In today’s episode, Gabe and Michelle talk about the positive impact their dogs, Peppy and Paisley, have on their mental health, debunking misconceptions that people with mental illness cannot be good pet owners. While Gabe’s dog offers comfort during his [...]
Passively Suicidal: Are You Still in Recovery? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Today, Gabe and Michelle explore the nuances of navigating passive suicidal ideation within the context of long-term mental illness recovery. They highlight that occasional fleeting thoughts of suicide don’t necessarily signify a regression in recovery. However, they [...]
Women v Men: Who Has More Stigma From Mental Illness? from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Today’s discussion explores the challenges men and women face in managing mental illness, examining societal expectations, medication, and support systems. What disparities exist? What similarities [...]
Challenging the Stupidity Stereotype in Mental Illness from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Can people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia be intelligent, or are they dumb? Tune in as Gabe and Michelle navigate the intersections of intelligence, creativity, and mental health, challenging the stereotypes that [...]
Podcast: Season 4 Premiere: 2 Truths and a Lie from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast In this riveting episode of A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast, join Gabe and Michelle as they embark on a gripping game of “Two Truths and a Lie.” Brace yourself for a rollercoaster of [...]
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We Are Frauds (Talking About Imposter Syndrome) from A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast “Don't get mad at your friends when they don't tell you what you want to hear. Because what you need to hear is often more important than what you want to hear. ” – Gabe Howard Gabe spoke at Oxford [...]
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 [...]
