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Episode 287 - Recovering from Mental Illness with Dale Walsh

June 03, 2025 • Petra Brunnbauer • Episode 287

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June 3, 2025
The Jōrni Podcast
Episode 287 - Recovering from Mental Illness with Dale Walsh

This episode contains adult subject matter and some listeners may be triggered by this content. Listener discretion is advised.

What does it mean to live with a mind that moves differently from the world around us, and still find ways to connect, create, and be heard? In this episode, we step into an honest and layered conversation about the day-to-day reality of schizophrenia and multiple personalities. Through firsthand insight, we explore the texture of a life shaped by mental illness, where creativity, resilience, and meaning continue to take root.

This is a unique chance to hear from someone who has spent decades navigating a complex mental health journey. The episode offers moments of reflection, humor, and clarity that go beyond the clinical lens. It invites us to listen with openness and curiosity, and to expand how we understand mental health.

DALE WALSH

Dale Walsh has had a very challenging but also inspiring 50- year recovery from Serious Mental Illness that began with delusions of grandeur at an Ivy League University in the summer of 1975, which irrevocably changed his life.

A graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dale has transformed "his mess into his message" and has often spoken about mental health, particularly schizophrenic matters on podcasts and live.

He is a prolific Poet with an archive of 5,000 works and six novels. He has lived his entire adult life in Hackensack, NJ.

RESOURCES
https://www.dewlivelove.net
https://www.facebook.com/dale.walsh.14
https://www.instagram.com/dale.walsh.14

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