Alcoholism And Schizophrenia Have Their Darkest Days. | SoberNotSober Ep.44
SoberNotSoberPod by Grant & Mekaylay
Episode notes
Mekaylay and Grant are back for their most vulnerable episode yet — and somehow also one of the most unhinged.
They kick things off by choosing THIS podcast over a presidential address (their words), before diving into real talk about the broken American healthcare system — specifically the infuriating red tape that disabled people face just to get the basic equipment they need to live.
Then things get personal. Mekaylay opens up about the night his dad had a massive stroke on his 60th birthday, the race to the hospital, being told by a nurse that he had "five strikes" and was basically already dead — and how he handled all of it the only way she knew how at 19: by drinking. Grant shares his own story of finding out he had schizoaffective disorder by accidentally seeing it on a computer screen at a mental health facility, ...