Something's Wrong With Mom - Paranoid Schizophrenia
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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This week on Sickboy, we go way back to an episode we originally aired in 2018. We chat with Marnie about an experience that isn't her own but one that has changed her life forever. Paranoid Schizophrenia. She grew up in a household where mom and dad don't get along. They fall into a devastating divorce, and soon after mom begins to believe that drones with lasers are following her everywhere and silently attacking her internal organs and slowly killing her. A jam packed episode of heartbreak, hospital psych ward escapes, secret letters, brain washing and home made moats dug around the house and most certainly not up to code.
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| 0:33.2 | Hello, everybody. Happy holidays. |
| 0:35.3 | This is it. We are nearing the end of the year. Coming into 2026, everybody. Happy holidays. This is it. We are nearing the end of the year coming into |
| 0:39.6 | 2026, 2025. What a beautiful, what a freaking awesome year. And thank you all for supporting the |
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| 0:56.0 | So listen, usually around this time of the season, we end the year by re-releasing an old episode from way back when. |
| 1:05.8 | And this year is no different. Today, we are going to be listening to an episode from way back in 2018, |
| 1:13.6 | January of 2018, where we spoke to our friend Marnie about what it's like to have a parent |
| 1:22.0 | who lives with schizophrenia. The episode was called Something's Wrong with Mom, Paranoid |
| 1:27.2 | Schizophrenia. Actually, Paranoid schizophrenia. |
| 1:29.3 | Actually, interesting week, interesting month, January of 2018. The week before that episode, |
| 1:35.5 | we put out one called These Pills Are Making Me Crazy, Ovarian Cancer. And then following |
| 1:40.7 | Marnies was, I had two vaginas. You never know what you're going to get here. |
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