On Hiatus: Mental Health Challenged

...And we're back! This time with a much healthier Grant Markham! That's right, after 3 months of sickness and disparity, Grant is able to return to the microphone to discuss not just mental health but physical health. 

Jay of course is along to help guide him and encourage him to take his vitamins, accept his old age and bring up actual texts of his downward spiral... just in case he forgot something! 

In this episode, Jay (The Angry Ginger) shares his struggles with Borderline Personality Disorder. His struggles with being a father of two daughters diagnosed with BPD. He feels guilty for potentially being part of the cause. He shares his struggles with trying to reach out to one of his daughters and the rippling effect that this disorder can have on the entire family. 

Grant relates from being misdiagnosed as Bipolar for many years and how his depression has caused him to not always see the true reality of things but what he made up in his head for a multitude of reasons. 

Trigger Warning: There are comments made about suicide. Thoughts of how and why from both a time of being young and misunderstood and from being older and wiser and how outlooks have changed. 

Also, Grant attempts to travel down a road to LOSERVILLE where apparently he beleives Jay has residual fear from the past of where he swears Jay once resided... but trust me when I tell you that he was misinformed. 

Thank you so much for listening! We would both appreciate it if you could help spread the word about this podcast. Tell your friends, your enemies, share it on the socials with both! 

We are coming up to the end of the season. I'm shooting for 4 more episodes but it's looking like 2 more for sure. Stay subscribed and we'll keep making them! 

Jay

@PodcastHiatus

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This week your favorite mentally challanged mental health advocates return to share their thoughts on clips that didn't make thier original episodes. These are conversations that maybe didn't fit the theme of the episode preveiously released or maybe they just needed to be cut for time... but Jay (The Angry One) deemed that they were still worthy of airtime! 

Grant didn't have much say except for what he originally had to say during the time of recording! 

Without further ado, press play and hear Grant and Jay take you on a trip down the cutting room floor's memory lane! 

In this episode:

Jay gets called out for having a bit of preshow attitude toward his girlfriend when she presents a last minute tree removal need before pressing record. Grant can't help but make commentary and Jay thinks he's imagining things. 

Jay has some beef with the way Grant always presents the ugly truth (and ugliness) of his past relationships. Grant sticks by what he says, except for the time he said nothing. Shockingly he has plenty to say now. 

Grant struggles with a new perscripton and how it effects him. Jay questions whether our friendship would have made it through a one year rental agreement. 

Grant struggles to have a good manly cry and Jay struggles to remember when the last time it was that he actually had one. 

Thank you to everyone who patiently waits for us to release episodes of On Hiatus. Like Grant says, we are only Off Hiatus when we aren't On Hiatus! 

Please feel free to reach out to us on the socials or email the show and let us know if you are enjoying this season. It would mean the world to us to hear from you!!! 

We're back from On Hiatus... this time with possible identity problems as Grant contemplates shaving off his handlebar mustache and beard in an attempt to take a decade off his image, but will he still get noticed? 

Jason shares what he's grateful for in an attempt to lure Grant into doing the same thing but he adds his own dash of humor to the whole thing but in sharing his gratiude journaling, he shares that he got some bad results back from a blood test and he might need to get a liver ultrasound. 

Speaking of drinking, Jay just returned from Vegas, and Zion! The family trip was a great success. Did it compare to Grant's latenight police shakedown? Listen and find out! 

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Grant, who normally struggles to LIVE IN THE MOMENT, made a promise to do just that while on vacation with his family. Was he able to actually live in the moment? Was there a meltdown? 

Have you ever heard the show before!? 

If so, you won't be let down! 

After we hear about Grant's vacation and all the fun (meltdown or not) included, we turn it over to Jay, who's planning one heck of a vacation with his girlfriend and kids. Yes, eating a footlong in the hottub comes up again (get your mind out of the gutter) and yes it's going to likely happen again (get over it Grant!) 

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Grant is headed out on vacation, but first he has to solve an RX problem. His reactions to name brand v.s. generic are different as is the cost. But then he discovers that name brands offer extensive discounts to their product on their websites. This can't be legal!!

While trying to plan his prescription renewal during his vacation, Grant also admits to stuggling to enjoy himself on vacation. 

Jay is also gearing up for vacation and he's got zero issues with dropping everything and enjoying every moment, in fact his struggle might be that he's already mentally checked out! 

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Jay and Grant are back with thier personal form of armchair therapy. In this episode Grant shares how he might have gotten himself into some hot water by comparing the way he precieves Jay's relationship with his girlfiend to his own relationship with his wife. 

Jay admits to never really being passionate about any of his jobs but shares what really gets his juices flowing, while Grant shares his struggles about actually being passionate about his job but the difficulties remaining that way due to all of the outside forces. 

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As if breaking down Grant's (mostly) cognitive distortions wasn't enough in this episode, Jay hits him with a fact about a high percentage of people don't have an inner monologue. This almost breaks Grant mentally. The comedic downward spiral and the wishful thinking that comes from the idea of not having to suffer from listening to his evil unreliable narrator is a rollercoaster of emotions, to say the least. 

You may recall that in the first official episode of the season, we quickly discussed the 15 cognitive distortions and broke down the first 5 of them and how they related to us... well in this episode we break down the next 5 and how they relate to us. Mostly Grant. 

Jay doesn't get out of this unscathed though. Grant doesn't seem to think that Jay is discriptive enough when it comes to sharing his emotions and he also admits that he's not happy, nor does he understand Jay's level of depression. Has Jay ever laid in a fetal position and cried when feeling depressed or is it just more of a Meh! feeling? 

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Does walking into a room fill you with Anxiety? Are you an immediate wallflower or do you become the life of the party? 

Anxiety can effect the way we think and present ourselves in very different ways. 

In today's episode, this conversation just happens to manifest itself. Grant admits to having an outing that he's nervous about once this weeks recording is finished, so Jay, his non social mask wearing and always filled with positivity cohost, goes along for the ride. 

Greetings dearest listener! 

This week's episode was born from an actual moment in the streets, so to speak. 

Grant arrives early for a recording session. Ginger isn't ready. He's still got a studio to clean up, kids to deal with and show notes to finish. This causes a bit of a panic. The simiple question of "What the F*** are you doing here already!?" was apparently out of line between friends of twenty years. 

A discussion ensues. 

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Thank you for listening and supporting the show! 

Jay The Angry Ginger and Grant