Finding Sanity with Layo The Leprechaun

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What do you do when you lose your mind? What do you do when you are feeling insane? This is Finding Sanity. A podcast where you get to listen to people's lived experience with mental illness and from professionals within the mental health industry.

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Episodes

Psycare Ireland | Psychosis at festivals, homeless shelters and psychedelics | Ep.8

Psycare Ireland's website: https://www.psycareireland.org Timestamps: 00:13:09 What is Psycare? 02:43:05 Psychosis at Music Festivals 14:09:24 Why was Psycare created? 16:35:49 My mental breakdown at a festival 22:07:09 Kat's struggles with mental health 44:57:09 Psychosis in homeless shelters 01:00:52:13 Why did you go from studying psychology to medicine to now possibly psychiatry? 01:10:10:28 The future of recreational drugs in medicine 01:19:13:35 Psychedelics for Psychosis 01:40:39:20 Advic...

Mar 19, 2023•2 hr 15 min

Lou Folke: Bipolar Type 1 Recovery, Healing with Plant Medicines & Coming Out as Queer | Ep. 7

Join my newsletter!: https://open.substack.com/pub/layotheleprechaun/p/magic-mondays Time Stamps: 2:44:22 What is the worst comment you've received? 4:00:08 What does queer mean? 8:23:22 Life before the diagnosis 18:38:24 When did you know you were a lesbian? 22:39:19 First Psychosis Episode 28:51:03 Star sign birthday 34:30:10 Psych Ward Experience 45:26:11 Post hospital - therapy? 51:54:19 Psychosis reintegration 57:53:11 Recovery environment 1:01:11:14 Understanding Bipolar 1:03:39:01 Anti-ps...

Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 57 min

Nick Loffree: Schizophrenic turned Qi Gong Teacher | Layo Listens: Probably The Best Psychosis Podcast Ep.1

@NickLoffreeBioenergeticHealth was diagnosed with a drug induced psychosis when he was 17. For 2 years, he suffered with schizophrenia symptoms. He safely went off his medication and became a yoga teacher, then a qi gong teacher. This is an interesting story to say the least. Time Stamps: 57:52 what were you diagnosed with? 1:37:18 what symptoms did you have? 3:48:14 what grandeur delusions did you have? 18:57:07 Possessed Japanese story 24:28:15 do you believe people can be possessed? 29:59:09 ...

Jan 06, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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