If you live with mental illness — or love someone who does — and you’re tired of sugar-coated wellness talk, this show is for you.

Beat The Mental Health Out Of It! (AKA “BTMHOOI!”) is a candid mental health podcast rooted in lived experience, dark humor, and honest conversation. We tell it like it is, so you don’t have to.

Hosted by Nicholas Wichman (“The DEFECTIVE Schizoaffective”) and frequently joined by co-host Tony Medeiros (“IndyPocket”), a music therapist and fellow drummer, we have brutally honest conversations about serious mental illness, trauma, and the societal systems that shape mental health. Topics include schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis, bipolar disorder, BPD, PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction recovery, suicide survival, religious trauma, psychiatric medication, disability, therapy (good and bad), psych wards, coping skills, and the real-world pressures that make recovery harder than it needs to be.

You’ll hear:

• Lived-experience perspective from someone navigating psychosis, relapse, parenting, and recovery in real time.
• No-BS conversations about what helps, what doesn’t, and what stigma and “awareness culture” get wrong.
• Dark humor and storytelling that educates and humanizes instead of sensationalizing.
• Interviews with everyday people, professionals, and notable guests, because mental health struggles don’t care who you are.

This show is for anyone trying to survive therapy, meds, trauma, and everyday chaos — or trying to understand a loved one who is. If you want language for what you’re experiencing, conversations that don’t flinch, and a judgment-free vibe with some laughs along the way, you’re in the right place.

We’re not your therapists — we’re fellow passengers on “The Struggle Bus,” sharing what we’ve learned the hard way and refusing to suffer in silence.

“Don’t look to the bottle, the knife for the gun… Look to the soul you’ll become!”