#802 Bipolar, Vices & Psych Wards - Emily LoMenzo Washcovick
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Fellow Midwesterner opens up to Paul about her battles with BiPolar including a hospitalization, and her struggles with vices.
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Her show - Success, Rewritten can be found on any podcast platform + YouTube.
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Website : https://www.successrewrittenshow.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 802 with my guest, Emily Lomenzo Washkovic. I am Paul Gilmartin. I'm the host. |
| 0:08.7 | How are you? You've been good? Did you get a haircut? |
| 0:17.1 | Where do I start? If you're new, this podcast is a place for honesty about all the battles |
| 0:22.7 | in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction |
| 0:28.0 | to everyday compulsive negative thinking. And this show is not meant to be a substitute. |
| 0:33.9 | For professional mental counseling, I am not a therapist. It's not a doctor's office. |
| 0:38.6 | It's more like a waiting room. |
| 0:40.5 | The website for this show is metalpod.com and metalpod, the social media handle that you can follow us at. |
| 0:50.0 | Where do I begin? |
| 0:51.3 | Normally when I record episodes, it's months before they are released, |
| 0:58.7 | because I like to have a large batch to choose from, so I can kind of mix up subject matter, |
| 1:06.3 | kind of the vibe of different episodes. But I recorded this episode with Emily yesterday. |
| 1:13.9 | And we finished, and I really enjoyed our conversation. |
| 1:17.7 | And when I finished it, I was like, I'm just, I know there's no edits that need to be done. |
| 1:26.3 | I'm just going to put it up tomorrow. |
| 1:28.0 | So, yeah, I'm still avoiding, I'm not avoiding, taking a break from doing the surveys. |
| 1:39.0 | And it feels good. |
| 1:42.4 | And I've been apologizing in the last couple of weeks for not including surveys. |
| 1:48.8 | And thank you to those of you who were like, you don't need to apologize. |
| 1:53.8 | You're taking care of yourself. |
| 1:56.5 | We still enjoy the podcast. |
| 1:58.7 | We're even enjoying the best of episodes. |
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