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Alcoholism & Recovery | Reclaiming Life After Addiction w/ Jake Miller
Alcohol is the most dangerous drug most of us normalize. Recovery is daily and relentless—but it’s how you get your life back.
A candid mental health episode about what alcoholism really costs, losing your main coping skill to injury, life changes that isolate you, and what it takes to start over when this drug destroys your life.
Episode focus: alcohol as a drug (and why “legal” ≠ safe); the functioning alcoholic myth; pancreatitis as a brutal wake-up call; losing a core coping skill; life changes, social discomfort, and isolation; practical early-recovery steps when your old tools aren’t available.
We cover:
- Alcohol as a drug: normalization vs. danger; real costs to body, mind, and life
- “Functioning” that isn’t: showing up at work while everything else erodes
- Car wrecks & Pancreatitis (3x): deadly wake-up calls and why they forced the change
- Coping-skill loss: how do you survive when your outlet is gone?
- Life changes & isolation: shrinking circles and avoiding relationships
- Early recovery: tiny steps, accountability, and rebuilding routine without the old crutch
Share one song that helped you through your hardest time—and why. Your track (and your story) might help someone else push through a similar moment. Drop it in our Discord "The Struggle Bus" so we can build a lifesaving playlist together. (link below)
Beat The Mental Health Out Of It! is a candid mental health podcast with lived experience—schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia spectrum psychosis, BPD, PTSD, trauma recovery, coping skills, and dark humor that fights stigma.
Hosted by Nicholas Wichman (“The DEFECTIVE Schizoaffective”) with frequent co-host Tony Medeiros, ("IndyPocket"), we talk serious mental illness, psych wards, religious trauma, bad therapy, meds, disability, and messy real-world coping.
New episodes drop every other Monday at 6am ET.
Want community and support? Join our Discord, “The Struggle Bus”: https://discord.gg/emFXKuWKNA
All links (TikTok, YouTube, Streaming, etc.): https://linktr.ee/BTMHOOI
Podcast cover art by Ryan Manning
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By Nicholas Wichman - Lived Experience HostAlcohol is the most dangerous drug most of us normalize. Recovery is daily and relentless—but it’s how you get your life back.
A candid mental health episode about what alcoholism really costs, losing your main coping skill to injury, life changes that isolate you, and what it takes to start over when this drug destroys your life.
Episode focus: alcohol as a drug (and why “legal” ≠ safe); the functioning alcoholic myth; pancreatitis as a brutal wake-up call; losing a core coping skill; life changes, social discomfort, and isolation; practical early-recovery steps when your old tools aren’t available.
We cover:
- Alcohol as a drug: normalization vs. danger; real costs to body, mind, and life
- “Functioning” that isn’t: showing up at work while everything else erodes
- Car wrecks & Pancreatitis (3x): deadly wake-up calls and why they forced the change
- Coping-skill loss: how do you survive when your outlet is gone?
- Life changes & isolation: shrinking circles and avoiding relationships
- Early recovery: tiny steps, accountability, and rebuilding routine without the old crutch
Share one song that helped you through your hardest time—and why. Your track (and your story) might help someone else push through a similar moment. Drop it in our Discord "The Struggle Bus" so we can build a lifesaving playlist together. (link below)
Beat The Mental Health Out Of It! is a candid mental health podcast with lived experience—schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia spectrum psychosis, BPD, PTSD, trauma recovery, coping skills, and dark humor that fights stigma.
Hosted by Nicholas Wichman (“The DEFECTIVE Schizoaffective”) with frequent co-host Tony Medeiros, ("IndyPocket"), we talk serious mental illness, psych wards, religious trauma, bad therapy, meds, disability, and messy real-world coping.
New episodes drop every other Monday at 6am ET.
Want community and support? Join our Discord, “The Struggle Bus”: https://discord.gg/emFXKuWKNA
All links (TikTok, YouTube, Streaming, etc.): https://linktr.ee/BTMHOOI
Podcast cover art by Ryan Manning