Chelsea & Evan are comedians with diagnosed mental health disorders (Turrets and OCD, respectively). Join them as they speak lively and informally with others who share their experience. They trade stories about compulsions, pills and misinformation; all in an effort to destigmatize and normalize at…
Call Us Crazy ends it’s run on The Atlantic Transmission with a live show for Mental Health Awareness Week with comedian Jon Fisch and Sarah Hartshorne & Jenny Jaffe from Project UROK. Be sure to continue to follow Call Us Crazy and support their continued effort to de-stigmatize and enlighten the topics and issues involving […]
Stephanie Schroeder, journalist and author, drops by to talk about her life with depression and tourette. She shares how her illnesses were first identified, coming to terms with how strangers might judge her and surviving an abusive relationship. Pick up her book: Beautiful Wreck: Sex, Lies & Suicide Also, check out Call Us Crazy Live on Monday, […]
By its very nature, each case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder stems from an emotionally disturbing story. While often equated stories of soldiers heading into the battlefield, this story has a young girl heading out to buy a puppy for her birthday only to make the horrific discovery of her father’s suicide, along with dreadful accounts of […]
Chelsea finally gets a fellow touretter on with actor Gardiner Comfort. He opens up about his ticks coming at age 5, being diagnosed at age 7 and asking his mom when it was “going to stop”. He also talks about his solo show “The Elephant in Every Room I Enter” where he explores living with the […]
The first time comedian Lindsay Goldwert realized there was doom in the world was by gazing at an empty swimming pool. Chelsea & Evan welcome the self-proclaimed “Happiest Black Hole” to the program. She discusses growing up in a family in which mental illness was never spoken of and having a school psychiatrist that told […]
Lance Weiss stops by to talk about living with OCD and the benefits of exposure therapy. Lance shares his experience of treating fears like touching dirty subway poles by going to a park and wrapping himself in a homeless person’s blanket followed by licking the bottom of a shoe. He even gets everyone to lick the […]
Comedian Jackie Peters joins us to talk about living with fibromyalgia & ADHD.
On today’s show is Chelsea’s platonic life-mate, comedian Aalap Patel. He discusses almost being famous on the black Family Channel, performing his own re-birth in his bathtub and the therapeutic benefits of smoking weed. Most importantly he talks about what it’s like living with Chelsea!
Chelsea and Evan welcome to the show, Jenny Jaffe from Project UROK. Jenny is living with OCD, Panic Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. She talks about living life dictated by fear before her diagnosis and the measures she took to manage them as well as just getting out of high school alive.. They also chat about […]
Chelsea & Evan are comedians with diagnosed mental health disorders (Turrets and OCD, respectively). Join them as they speak lively and informally with others who share their experience. They trade stories about compulsions, pills and misinformation; all in an effort to destigmatize and normalize attitudes about diagnosed disorders. It’s entertaining and enlightening. Call Us Crazy premiers […]