Weanne Estrada:Mental Health Without Borders: How Compassion, Culture, and Community Transform Lives Worldwide

Show Notes What does mental health look like when someone has lost everything? In this inspiring episode of Why Not Me?, Tony Mantor sits down with Weanne Estrada, Mental Health Specialist with ADRA International (Adventist Development and Relief Agency), to explore the realities of humanitarian …

Dr. Adi Jaffe: The Truth About Addiction, Trauma, Shame, and Breaking Free

(Show Notes) What if addiction isn't the real problem? In this powerful episode of Why Not Me? Embracing Autism and Mental Health Worldwide, Tony Mantor sits down with psychologist, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author Dr. Adi Jaffe to challenge everything we've been taught about addiction, recov…

Meg LeDuc: Journey Through Serious Mental Illness:Living Beyond the Diagnosis

Show Notes What happens when the diagnosis changes, the struggle feels endless, and hope seems impossible to find? In this episode of Why Not Me?, Tony Mantor sits down with writer and journalist Meg LeDuc to discuss her personal journey through depression, anxiety, psychosis, suicide attempts, s…

Dr Aaron Meyer and Ann Marie Council part 2: Breaking the Cycle: Why Serious Mental Illness Deserves Better Than Jail or the Streets

Send us Fan Mail Show Notes What happens when the systems designed to help people with serious mental illness become the very barriers preventing care? In Part 2 of this important conversation, Tony Mantor welcomes Dr. Aaron Meyer and Anne Marie Council for a candid discussion about the failures…

Dr Aaron Meyer and Ann Marie Council: Bridging the Mental Health Gap: Policy, Psychiatry, and the Fight for Early Intervention

Send us Fan Mail In this important episode of Why Not Me? Embracing Autism and Mental Health Worldwide, Tony Mantor sits down with Dr. Alan Meyer, psychiatrist and Behavioral Health Officer for the City of San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, and Ann Marie Council, retired Senior Deputy City Attorney…

John Rolls: What If Inclusion Worked Better Than Quotas

Send us Fan Mail We talk with John Rolls about the Gremlin Club’s Sunday open mic in Camarthen and how it grows from a rehearsal night into a welcoming community where people leave their troubles at the door.  We dig into what real inclusion looks like for autism, mental health, and disability wh…

Jerri Clark: Ambiguous Loss and When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love

Send us Fan Mail We sit with author Jerri Clark as he explains how severe mental illness can create a “gone but not gone” grief that families carry in silence.  We talk about ambiguous loss, why closure often never comes, and how to keep living with love and meaning even when the outcome is out o…

Patrick Kennedy: Part 2 : A Real Mental Health Strategy

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy to get specific about what a real national mental health strategy looks like and why the current system wastes money while people end up isolated, hospitalized, incarcerated, or living on the streets.  We dig into integr…

Patrick Kennedy: Part 1: We Can Fix Mental Health Care If We Build Power

Send us Fan Mail We talk with former U.S. representative Patrick Kennedy about why mental health parity still fails in practice and what it takes to make insurers and employers cover care that actually works.  We keep coming back to one idea: real change happens when we build power and design a s…

Sen Judy Amabile: When Psychosis Hits, Families Need A System That Works

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Colorado State Senator Judy Amabile to connect one family’s painful path through serious mental illness to the laws that decide whether people get treatment or get pushed into homelessness and the courts.  We talk honestly about psychosis, stigma, and the hard po…