Cohen Miles-Rath (on psychosis and recovery)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Comedy, Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Cohen Miles-Rath (Mending Reality: An Advocate’s Existential Journey with Mental Health) is a mental health advocate, author, and suicide prevention professional. Cohen joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up between two wildly different households in upstate New York, finding his footing as a distance runner while becoming the first in his family to go to college, and how injuries and pressure began to unravel his sense of self. Cohen and Dax talk about the psychotic break that led him to try to kill his father, the role weed and sleeplessness played in his crisis, and the unconditional love that helped him rebuild his life after jail. Cohen explains what hallucinations and delusions feel like from the inside, why recovery requires daily vigilance and a strong support system, and how sharing his story helps reduce stigma around severe mental illness.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:02.4	Experts on expert.
0:03.5	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:04.4	I'm joined by a crying Lily Patman. No, there's like dust on my face. You're having an allergic reaction right now? Well, we didn't finish something. We started and that's upsetting for me. Are there high winds in here that I don't know about? Maybe. Okay. This is one of the most interesting episodes we've ever had. Yes. Our guest today, Cohen Miles Rath, is a mental health
0:24.0	advocate and speaker, and he has a memoir out now called Mending Reality and Advocates'
0:29.8	existential journey with mental health. This is a firsthand account of someone who had a psychotic
0:36.4	break, a schizophrenic episode that resulted in them trying
0:42.2	to kill their father.
0:43.7	Yes.
0:44.5	And the amount of bravery and honesty that Cohen brings to this is incredible.
0:50.8	It really is.
0:51.7	It is very helpful to hear the firsthand account as opposed to the
0:55.1	outsider's view of it is very powerful. I agree. Please enjoy Cohen Miles Rath. This podcast is
1:03.0	brought to you by Squarespace. I feel like Spring always does this thing where you realize
1:07.6	you've been thinking about something for a long time and suddenly it feels like, okay, maybe I actually do something with it. Totally. It's less pressure, but more like readiness. Yeah, like you've been sitting on an idea or a project or even just a perspective you care about. And now you're like, maybe this deserves to exist somewhere outside of my own head. In May being Mental Health Awareness Month, there's already this broader conversation
1:28.9	happening. People are more open, more curious, more willing to engage.
1:32.4	Which is where something like Squarespace comes in. It makes that jump from idea to actual
1:37.4	thing feel way less overwhelming. You can build a site that looks good, works well, and actually
1:42.9	reflects what you're trying to put out there.
1:45.1	And it's not just hypothetical. Wabiwob literally used Squarespace to build our site.
1:49.1	Yeah, and Wabiwob is not trying to spend 40 hours figuring out web design. It just worked.
1:54.5	Which is kind of the point. So if you've been sitting on something and waiting for the right moment,
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