#794 Best Of: Maria Bamford & The Psych Ward
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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In this listener-favorite ep from 2013, the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed comedian talks about her lifelong battles with OCD, Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, BiPolar II, and the recent hospitalization that probably saved her life. Sounds pretty hilarious huh?
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| 0:28.6 | welcome to episode 794 uh with the best of episode with maria bamford recorded way back in 2013, and I think honestly |
| 0:40.6 | one of the best episodes that we've ever done. And I apologize if some of you have heard it |
| 0:47.5 | already, and you were looking forward to a new episode this week. But if you listened to last week, |
| 0:53.4 | you heard me talk about the fact that I |
| 0:57.3 | relapsed on pornography, not on drugs and alcohol, but on pornography, I guess about 10, 10 days |
| 1:04.0 | ago, 20 days ago. And so I've been off it now for about seven days, but I'm really in the dumps. |
| 1:12.2 | And it kind of goes up and down. |
| 1:14.5 | Usually I feel better after I get up from a nap, but I've just been spending a lot of time in bed and just like, just, there's just like a hole in my chest that feels like a vacuum of neediness and fear of leaving the |
| 1:32.7 | house and doing anything. |
| 1:36.9 | Struggling with self-care, struggling with showering, struggling to, like, I have vegetables |
| 1:43.0 | in the refrigerator that I was going to make to eat |
| 1:46.9 | during the week and they're just all in there you know pretty much expired because I just can't |
| 1:52.7 | will myself to to cook myself something healthy and um you know my girlfriend christina has been extremely extremely supportive but um you know |
| 2:04.9 | we only see each other hour and a half or so each night you know she she gets home around |
| 2:11.2 | 7 30 8 o'clock and she's asleep by 9 30 and then then she's up way, way, way before I get up. |
| 2:19.6 | So we really don't see each other until the weekends. But I guess all of that is to say it's not |
| 2:23.9 | like I'm floating out here alone. I am hitting some support group meetings and I'm finding |
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