Gabe Howard on Mental Illness

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

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🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer, speaker, and host of the weekly Psych Central show who lives with bipolar and anxiety disorders. His new book, Mental Illness Is an A-Hole – And Other Observations, is what he and Eric discuss in this episode. You’ll be captivated by Gabe’s story as he tells it – it’s compelling, relatable, inspiring, and educational. Whether or not you have bipolar disorder or another mental illness, chances are you know someone or some people who do and so this is an important episode to listen to – you’ll deepen your understanding of what it means to live with mental illness. Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Gabe Howard and I Discuss… His book, Mental Illness Is an A-Hole – And Other Observations What bipolar disorder is (and isn’t) and how it shows up in his life His compelling story The myth that people with mental illness come from bad families When he went to the ER because of suicidal thoughts How he defines recovery: spending more time living life than managing his bipolar disorder The 4 years he spent in a battle with his mental illness How you have to learn what works for you – and how that takes time The role of medication in the treatment of mental illness How it stings when your body lets you down Eric’s experience taking and not taking medication for his depression Whole health wellness Suicide Don’t choose a permanent solution to a temporary problem How suicide doesn’t end the pain – it transfers it to someone else Gabe Howard Links: gabehoward.com Twitter Facebook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by our newest Patreon members, René, Dan, and Jasmine,
0:05.6	and all the rest of our members who support the show. If you'd like to become a member of our
0:10.2	Patreon community and enjoy the many benefits of the membership, go to oneufeed.net-join.
0:18.7	It is always fascinating to me just as a observer of human behavior that anybody would think that
0:24.8	every single person with any illness would be exactly the same.
0:30.1	Welcome to the Oneufeed. Through our time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:42.2	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
0:49.2	and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity,
0:55.3	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
1:02.0	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
1:08.5	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
1:14.3	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:25.5	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Gabe Howard, an award-winning writer and speaker
1:39.0	who lives with bipolar and anxiety disorders. He is the host of the weekly psych central show. His
1:45.6	new book is Mental Illness as an asshole. Hi, Gabe. Welcome to the show.
1:52.4	Oh, thanks, Eric. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to have you on. You and I have met in
1:57.4	person. We're both people in Columbus, although unfortunately for today, we are not both in Columbus.
2:02.8	But, you know, so we've got to meet in person, which was nice. And we're going to talk about your book,
2:08.4	which is called Mental Illness as an asshole and other observations. But before we get into the book,
2:14.5	let's start like we always do with the parable. There's a grandfather who's talking with his
2:19.1	grandson. He says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always a battle. One is a
2:24.8	good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love. And the other is a bad wolf,
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