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Going Mental with Eileen Kelly Dear Media
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4.7 • 771 Ratings
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"She's crazy!" GOING MENTAL was born out of host Eileen Kelly’s commitment to destigmatizing mental health concerns while reclaiming her own narrative. In 2016, Eileen created the blog KILLER AND A SWEET THANG to make sense of things she wished she could have discussed with her mother, whom she lost at a young age: crushes, boyfriends, going on birth control, getting her period. Eileen quickly found herself running one of the most popular blogs of the 2010s, publishing hundreds of articles on sex and identity from other young writers. Despite such early success, internal struggles and a crippling personality disorder drove Eileen to 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: That's how GOING MENTAL was born.
Each week, Eileen 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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Surviving Female Genital Mutilation with Shamsa Araweelo
Trigger warning: Severe physical and emotional trauma.
Shamsa Araweelo grew up in Somalia, where when she was only 6 years old, she was taken by family to be cut. Today, she opens up to Eileen about her experience suffering from female genital mutilation (FGM).
FGM refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is often carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15 as a way to suppress sexuality and ensure virginity. According to the United Nations, an estimated 200 million women and girls worldwide have undergone some form of FGM.
Shamsa now resides in the UK and shares her experience to raise awareness and funds for those who are victims of FGM. She and Eileen discuss her heartbreaking story, how she refuses to be defined by it, why FGM occurs, how we can stop it, and more.
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Food Freedom with Dietitian Mallory Page
Mallory Page is a registered dietitian in Austin, Texas. She has worked in the athletic departments at the University of Arizona and University of Oklahoma — currently, she runs a private practice and hosts her own podcast, Seems Like Diet Culture. She and Eileen discuss the ins and outs of disordered eating as a mental illness, how it can be easily masked, treatment options, and more.
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UTI 101 with Urologist Dr. Angelish Kumar
Dr. Angelish Kumar is a board-certified urologist in New York City specializing in surgical and nonsurgical treatments for recurrent urinary tract infections, bladder leakage, vaginal laxity, and bladder pain. She is the founder of private medical practice Women’s Urology New York and is a Clinical Instructor of Urology at Mount Sinai Hospital. Eileen and Dr. Kumar break down everything there is to know about UTIs: What they are, why they happen, prevention, treatment, new research, and the importance of considering physical and mental health hand-in-hand.
To make an appointment or learn more about Dr. Kumar, visit her website, https://womensurologynewyork.com
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Jeffree Star Is Healing: Trauma and a Problematic Past (Part 2)
This is the second episode in a two-part series.
Jeffree Star is a YouTuber, makeup artist, and the founder of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. He first gained notoriety on MySpace as the most-followed person on the platform. He is one of YouTube's most famous beauty influencers with over 15 million subscribers and over 2 billion views. Since then, he’s been involved in dozens of controversies — and accused of racism and bullying. Jeffree and Eileen discuss his problematic past, his traumatic upbringing including his parent's addictions, his father's suicide, therapy, and leaving LA for a yak ranch in Wyoming.
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Jeffree Star Is Healing: Trauma and a Problematic Past (Part 1)
Jeffree Star is a YouTuber, makeup artist, and the founder of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. He first gained notoriety on MySpace as the most-followed person on the platform. He is one of YouTube's most famous beauty influencers with over 15 million subscribers and over 2 billion views. Since then, he’s been involved in dozens of controversies — and accused of racism and bullying. Jeffree and Eileen discuss his problematic past, his traumatic upbringing including his parent's addictions, his father's suicide, therapy, and leaving LA for a yak ranch in Wyoming.
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Follow @eileen on Instagram Follow @killerandasweetthang on Instagram Follow @eileeninparis on TikTok More information at: Goingmental.com -
DBT Explained with Dr. Maddy Ellberger
Dr. Ellberger specializes in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). She is a professor at Columbia University and runs her own private practice, Downtown Behavioral Wellness, in New York City. Today, she and Eileen piggyback off of last week's episode discussing Eileen’s BPD diagnosis for a deep dive into all things treatment, from DBT-specific skills, learning to name and control your emotions, utilizing DBT while navigating the dating landscape, and deciding what form of therapy is right for you.
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Customer Reviews
Feeling seen
So glad to have a podcast like this to listen to and help me understand myself better. I relate so much to you and your life experiences and it’s really helpful to hear you be so open and honest. I have felt confused about my mental health journey my entire life even in therapy and I feel like you’re giving me the confidence to really try to figure it out this time.
Going mental
Outstanding podcast that is highly needed. Thank you ❤️❤️
Ignorant and invited racist guest without properly interrogating their past
Yeah, I don’t know how someone could defend Eileen after not just once- but TWICE, inviting racist guest to “have a conversation” but then never properly disclosing ALL of their guest’s racist past and gloss over important questions. Eileen isn’t a journalist, but having a large audience comes with some responsibility- something which Eileen doesn’t seem to understand. I hope she’ll come around a realize all the POC and trans women she’s hurt, I don’t have much hope.
There are millions of podcast out there, you’re better off listening to any other one.