The Unfiltered Mental Health Podcast
What happens when two guys from tough backgrounds grow up, fail at relationships, raise adult children, and finally go to therapy? You get The Unfiltered Mental Health Podcast. Hosted by two mid-forties comedians, John Armstrong and Chris Paugh, this show is a raw, hilarious, and deeply honest look at childhood trauma, coping mechanisms, and the madness of middle-aged mental health. Drop the clinical BS and join the conversation.
Episodes
This week John ruins the podcast with his good mood, Chris admits to some sketchy editing practices, we embrace responsibility, try to do better, keeping it positive, avoiding bad traps, staying transparent, the difficulty of communicating in certain spaces, semantics, doing racial humor, stumbling through politeness, the evolution of language, a strange chance meeting, manifesting negative and positive stress, dressing like RFJ Jr...
This week Chris and John discuss Chris' upcoming comedy special, new atheists vs old atheists, debating as sport, flooding the zone, hungry judges, poor marshmallows, seasonal allergies, the concept of free will, philosophy YouTube, where our personalities come free, isolation, and more.
This week we're coming in hot about the hoodie theft epidemic. We get into the pitfalls of the fall, seasons changing and seasonal depression and Seasonal Effective Disorder, fruitless trees, keeping to ourselves, the enlightenment of hindsight, being left alone in crowded places, and more.
This week we discuss being manipulated by the algorithm, modern freak shows, bar rescues and old habits, over doing THC, current concerns about maintenance, commitment, societal PTSD, dating people with bad taste in people, seasonal depression, phantom limb, self improvement exhaustion and much more.
This week Chris and John check in and swerve off into politics, bad faith YouTube reviews, racism, fascism, how our attention spans have changed, how far does understanding go, the difference between forgiveness and acceptance, Micheal Jackson, Lanterns and how all of these things effect our mental health.
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This week we recorded another late night show and recount the horrible things we did growing up under duress, why we don't have traditional jobs, the pitfalls of learning, failed attempts at community college, updaters on therapy goals, the joy of shoplifting, old scams and schemes, summering in Collinwood, and more.
This week we finally verbalize what makes Manosphere advice so gross, how much we can't stand politeness, what's improved our moods, why it's hard to have gratitude for the past, and the sound of a voice they makes John want to quit the podcast.
This week we discuss the book No Bad Parts and the Internal Family Systems method and how ridiculous the human brain can be. Do you ever call self "we" in your Inner dialogue? Does it really matter how you talk yourself? The first thing we should be teaching new humans is how their brain works but here we are again, week in and week out, learning basic life skills in our forties. Join us for this discussion as we have epiphanies 25...
We're sorry for the late drop this week. We had some electric problems leading to computer problems at n the studio. This week we discuss the culture chock we each experienced moving through different types of American landscapes. The inner city, the country, rural and urban areas and the suburban hellscapes of American life all provide a different kind of anxiety and conditioning and constantly moving between them growing up can r...
Why does trying to heal sometimes feel worse than just staying broken? This week, Chris Paugh and John Armstrong dive deep into the exhausting reality of navigating Complex PTSD (CPTSD). We discuss why researching the effects of your own trauma can feel like you're re-breaking bones so they can heal correctly, and how to find healthy distractions when your brain desperately needs a break from new information.Plus, we tackle the ult...
Ever look at your dating history and realize you don’t have a type, you just have a favorite flavor of mismatched triggers and validation loops? This week, Chris and John dive headfirst into the exhausting, chaotic loop of relationship cycles and why our brains keep dragging us back to specific kinds of people.We’re breaking down the science of why stable people feel "boring" and why high-drama red flags feel like unden...
In this weeks episode we discuss having different sides to yourself that come out around the different people that make up the supporting cast of your life and when these different versions can become an issue. You're one person with family, one with friends, your father side, the person you are romantically, at work or alone. For me the goal is to be the best version all the time. We accivently stumbled on the theory of self unifi...
This week Chris and John continue their journey in improving their mental health and comedy careers. They discuss the GOATs writing personal comedy, turning the mirror on themselves, being the strong steady ship and failing, politics and mental health, whats happening in therapy and more.
Comedians Chris Paugh and John Armstrong check in every week from the intersection of being funny, getting older and maintaining good mental health.
IN this first epiosde we catch the audio listeners up on what we've been doing and why we are doing this podcast now. We discuss getting ghosted by a therapist, subistitute teacher vibes, psychedellics, healing your inner child, living in arrested development and taking one step...
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