89 episodes
Going Mental with Eileen Kelly Eileen Kelly
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4.7 • 144 Ratings
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GOING MENTAL was born out of host Eileen Kelly’s desire to reckon with the shame she felt around her mental health journey. Despite early career success, internal struggles and a crippling personality disorder drove Eileen to leave her exciting New York City life behind and seek treatment at McLean — one of the oldest mental hospitals in the country. After five months and some serious self-discovery, she returned to the outside world looking for a way to disseminate what she'd learned in treatment and connect to others with similar experiences.
Each week, along with personal stories from Eileen, she interviews some of today’s most compelling media figures, artists, authors, and celebrities about their own mental health journeys, along with a range of experts who provide information and support around various mental conditions.
New episodes releasing every Thursday.
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Mental Health Check-In: Acceptance & Reclaiming Your Agency (Solo)
In this solo episode, Eileen gives an update on her mental health and discusses how she incorporated DBT skills in practical applications during some recent professional milestones and personal challenges. She also shares some exciting life updates, including her LA house and upcoming projects. We round out the episode with a listener Q&A on relationships & friendships, finding fulfillment, pursuing passions, mental health self-care practices, and embracing the different stages of life.
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Why Do People Commit Suicide and How To Prevent It with Dr. Igor Galynker
This week, we're sharing a classic episode with Dr. Igor Galynker. Whether this is your first listen or you're revisiting the episode, this conversation was so important to destigmatizing many assumptions around suicidal ideation and feels more topical than ever.
Dr. Igor Galynker, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Suicide Research and Prevention Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where he’s developed and validated scales to determine the suicidal risk of patients. Dr. Galynker discusses the contributing factors to suicidality, prevention strategies, and his proposed suicide-specific diagnosis, Suicide Crisis Syndrome.
All donations made through the link below go directly to the Suicide Research and Prevention Laboratory.
https://giving.mountsinai.org/site/TR/DIY/General?px=1239388&pg=personal&fr_id=1090
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Holly Madison: From Alaska to Playboy & Disney Adulting
Holly Madison is an American television personality and a former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. She starred on the hit E! reality show The Girls Next Door for five seasons, which showcased life at the Playboy mansion as one of Hef’s three girlfriends. She is also a New York Times Best-Selling author and hosts the podcast Girls Next Level. She discusses growing up on the spectrum and her path to self-discovery, how a girl from a small town in Alaska ended up at the Playboy mansion, emotional abuse and control inside, competition amongst the girlfriends, leaving Hef, plastic surgery, Disneyland, and much more.
You can find Holly at @hollymadison on Instagram and catch her new series, Lethally Blonde, on ID and Max.
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Annie Hamilton: Coming to Terms with Being the Unhinged Girl Online
Annie Hamilton is a former aspiring actress, writer, performer, and niche internet celebrity in New York City. She discusses her online persona, the real life effects of being the “crazy girl” online, and how she differentiates between what’s real and fake, her recent breakup, multiple diagnoses, writing a TV show and movie, and why she'll never do another one-woman show.
You can find Annie on Instagram at @soimwritinganovel and Twitter @ANNIE_HAM.
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Debunking Personality Disorders with Dr. Brandon Unruh
This week, we're sharing a classic episode with Dr. Brandon Unruh. Whether this is your first listen or you're revisiting the episode, this conversation was so important to destigmatizing many assumptions around personality disorders and feels more topical than ever.
Brandon Unruh, MD, is the medical director of the Gunderson Residence, an intensive, specialized residential program for women with severe personality disorders at McLean hospital. We discuss the myths and common misconceptions surrounding personality disorders, treatment options, and new research in the field.
For further information on personality disorders:
https://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.org
https://www.mcleanhospital.org/videos?f%5B0%3A9431
https://emotionsmatterbpd.org
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Author Melissa Broder on Grief, Finding Humor in Tragedy, and Internal Peace
Melissa Broder is an American author, essayist and poet. Her work includes the novels The Pisces, Milk Fed, and Death Valley, the poetry collection Last Sext, and the essay collection So Sad Today, which was based on her anonymous Twitter account of the same name. She discusses her career trajectory, rescheduling this podcast due to her mental health, OCD, internet addiction, grieving the loss of her father, and more.
You can check out her work at melissabroder.com and follow her on both Instagram and X at the same name.
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Customer Reviews
Fun podcast
Came for the Anna Weyant podcast and stayed because Eileen is a compelling interviewer.
Enjoyed until
The content and guests of this podcast are great. Eileen is a competent interviewer but girl… please stop cutting off and finishing your guests’ sentences. While some guests handle it gracefully, others are clearly thrown off by it every time, and it’s irritating to listen to.
After listening to dozens of episodes, this problem persists and I sadly have to stop listening.
Eileen, I hope you see this, I’ve been a fan since the tumblr days, I want to keep listening but this bad habit is a dealbreaker, especially in a competitive field like podcasting. I hope to return in the future.
Solo diagnosis ep
Hi! I listened to the last episode on your diagnosis with BPD and I must say you were so vulnerable and transparent with your experience and I commend you for that because it is such a sensitive subject. It reminded me that we are all flawed humans and all of our emotions are valid, truly. It is so nice to hear that you do not meet all the criteria for BPD anymore because it proves that treatment works. I think an episode on DBT is a very good idea! Also, the part where you talked about all the stigma around BPD within the medical community and that your therapist at the time probably thought it’d be more damaging to give you the diagnosis than not left me honestly shook. I’m myself living with the ups and downs of my mental health and I think you’re doing a great job at spreading awareness. I stumbled on your ig I think when you were already at McLean and since then your platform has been very helpful and I could definitely understand your suffering. It honestly inspires me to do the same and also have my platform and talk about mental health. It’s such an important subject. I guess this is more of an appreciative review lol but I just think interviewing/ any communication field requires way more skills than one might think so stay patient with yourself and I think you can only progress. :)