Hello I’m Michelle Thomas and welcome to My Shit Therapist, the podcast pick of the week in The Times! The actual Times! I’m so happy and proud. I’m a one woman band, and sometimes it can feel like I'm chucking stuff out into the void. It’s har

Caroline O'Donoghue: Tarot and Tennis for Mental Health

Jul 18th, 2021 58m 7s

Hello hello! I’ve been quiet for a couple of months.I love doing this podcast, but I work full time and I’m planning to write another book, a follow up to My Sh*t Therapist and other mental health stories, and doing ALL THE THINGS ALL THE TIM

A sulk and a poem

May 14th, 2021 8m 5s

No guest this week, so here's a quick run down of what I've been up to, including making a BBC documentary and seeing a new therapist x

Kate: Get a Grip, love and other helpful mental health advice

Apr 24th, 2021 31m 12s

In this episode I’m takng to mental health author Kate Lucey. If you enjoy my book, My Sh*t Therapist and other mental health stories, I think you’ll really like her book, Get a Grip, Love. It’s a chatty, accessible, no-nonsense book about her

Amanda and Josh - How to tell your Mum you want to die

Apr 11th, 2021 50m 51s

Amanda Prowse is one of the most prolific novelists working today – she’s published 27 novels, many of which have been best-sellers all over the world including An Ordinary life, The Girl In The Corner, and The Coordinates Of Loss. She has c

Nell Frizzell: Daddy issues

Mar 28th, 2021 51m 44s

In this episode I’m taking to the brilliant, incisive and wise Nell Frizzell. Nell is the author of the book The Panic Years which explores that tumultuous period the late twenties and early forties when women (and men) are faced with weighty,

Gemma - Anxiety and Anticipatory Grief

Mar 15th, 2021 30m 52s

SIDEBAR: This week I appeared on a mental health panel for Amazon UK with Laura Thomas and Amanda Prowe. Watch it anytime in March on Amazon.co.uk/IWDGemma Sherlock is a journalist and the co-host of not one but two mental health podcasts:

Laura: what the book got wrong

Mar 7th, 2021 35m 32s

CONTENT WARNING: Suicidal and homicidal thoughtsHello and welcome to this very special episode of My Shit Therapist And Other Mental Health Stories with me Michelle Thomas The paperback version of my book, also titled My Shit Therapist And

Ross: sibling suicide and sobriety

Feb 12th, 2021 24m 38s

TW: Suicide, alcoholism After Ross McPhail lost his 18-year-old brother Jake to suicide, their Mum set up a charity to help families in similar situations. Ask For Jake offers peer-to-peer support and free suicide prevention training resource

Emma: In The Priory with catatonia (not the band)

Jan 24th, 2021 56m 59s

Emma is a YA author who writes under the name E. L. Norry. She was born in Cardiff, grew up in care, was sent to boarding school to Devon, and eventually moved to London. Emma was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a manic episode that

Jen: "I'm a bisexual, bipolar, Korean American New Yorker with ADHD. What are you drinking?"

Jan 10th, 2021 19m 21s

Jen is a content creator and a sh*t-hot bartender. She hasn’t has a formal diagnosis for bipolar or ADHD, but in this episode you’ll hear about how she came to that conclusion, and how claiming that identity has helped her manage her mental hea

"Rob" - Helping his son heal from trauma

Nov 8th, 2020 38m 49s

TW: Child sexual assault, suicide, gender dysphoria.Today I’m going to be chatting with a very nice man who isn’t really called Rob. I just want to warn you that in this episode we’re going to talk about child sexual assault, gender dysphori

Dave Birss: Creativity, conformity, and bipolarity.

Oct 23rd, 2020 41m 9s

Bonjour! In this episode I’m chatting with Dave Birss. Dave is an expert on creativity and innovation - a consultant, keynote speaker and author of A User Guide to the Creative Mind and How To Get Great Ideas. 25 years ago Dave experienced

Marcella Kroll: Magick and Mental Health

Oct 10th, 2020 52m 35s

What's the relationship between spirituality, spiritual practice and mental health? Marcella Kroll is an LA-based artist, intuitive and metaphysical teacher. She also describes herself as a guide, an oracle, and medium. She started reading ta

Sian - Endo, EMDR, and Welshness

Sep 15th, 2020 1h 21m

Sian Harris is one of my favourite comedy writers (Tourist Trap, Man Down) and the co-host of The Froth podcast with her husband Rhod Gilbert. In this chat we cover endometriosis, EMDR, boundaries and Wales, Welshness, and how the systemic unde

My Sh*t CAMHS worker, with David

Aug 14th, 2020 1h 3m

Hiya, Michelle here. In this episode I’m chatting with David Chipakupaku, a brilliant young journalist from the Scottish borders. On the day we recorded, he’d published his first exclusive with Sky news, and he’s still only 20. But life hasn’t

Post-natal depression with Amy Mason

Jul 31st, 2020 45m 48s

I chat with my pal, comedian and theatre-maker Amy Mason, about her experience with depression before and after the birth of her children, and about the TERRIBLE family therapy session she endured with two psychotherapists who refused to introd