Hats off to you for interviewing people and how they recovered from psychosis. Big Pharma and most doctors won’t mention recovery—only that you need “lifelong meds.” Recovery is the goal. It can be reached. Search for how to recover from your psychosis, not how to treat it….many interviews on this podcast will help.

Sincere, genuine, and eye opening. I feel like this podcast helps moves society in the right direction one listener at a time. Thanks Will Hall.

Dear Will Hall, Thank you for this earnest, and sensitive podcast. I especially enjoyed your interview with Olga Runcimann. Though you have taken a break - well earned - for a niche podcast you have merited much gratitude. My mum @Rossa Forbes was a blogger on MIA, and when she stopped I felt disconnected and no way to fill that hole. I think you have shown that meaningful conversations can be had beyond Frazier Crane style pop psychology for general interest and general education. Many of us have not, will not “grow up” quick enough to catch the likes of your interests, but as between Religious podcasts which edify but narrow the mind, we’re without a guide. I “work” within a Clubhouse International framework for people with mental illness and as everywhere in America we suffer from an undersupply of intelligent and willful leadership but if we would carefully quiet the chatter and listen to voices like yours, there is hope. Stephen

Will Hall and Madness Radio allowed me to survive the narrow minded messages of graduate clinical mental health studies. This should be required listening for any mental health training program. Will is an awesome advocate for choice, wellness, and accepting who we are in infinite variety. If you want help to bust out of your box this is the show for you. I was bummed to run out of new episodes having listened to every one on iTunes back to March 2006. Phew, there is another whole year of episodes available on the Madness Radio website.

Will Hall's podcast gives voice to those whose voices have been supressed by mainstream psychiatry. Hours of first-hand accounts from psychiatric survivors on how they successfully went off psychiatric meds, learned to turn their voices into assets instead of crippling burdens, and how they found community in friendship on their journeys to leading happy, meaningful lives. A must-listen!

we live in an insane society, and labelling people as “insane” rather than the culture is a convenient scapegoat. this show looks beyond the stigma and examines a lot of the issues surrounding “madness"

Will Hall's soothing, wise voice is always a treat. He chooses such smart, accomplished guests and has such a great way of breaking down complex issues. Check this show out if you're interested in alternative approaches to mental health.

For us clinicians working in the mental health system, hope is extremley important. We very quickly learn the system relies mostly on psychiatric medication and we are extremley frustrated when it seems our clients are not always benefited from it, Especially with those horrible side effects. This Program has the ability to broaden our view. To see there are solutions outside the realm of medication or in conjuction with medication. We learn that our clients are best to judge what are his or hers best medications (referring to personal medication, using the words of the great Pat Deegan). We listen from many role models interviews in this show. Thanks Will & Leah. We owe you one

Past, present and probably future. Thanks, Will Hall, for making it available to those of us who live out of radio frequencies, to download and listen. What a legacy...

I can't believe this podcast hasn't taken off. Everyone knows someone who is dealing with mental health issues, and yet we struggle to know how to talk about these things. I have found the different voices and perspectives here so interesting.. but more than anything I am finding new ways to talk about these topics. Too many of the words we used are heavy with additional meanings. Here I find stories and viewpoints that give me hope and make me smile hearing the courage of speaking one's truth openly and honestly. I have learned so much about others and myself.

I thought there would be new content bc of your kick starter campaign... Waiting....

Finally, someone who knows how to interview a guest. Most interviewers are just waiting for the opportunity to talk about themselves – but Will Hall actually listens to the guests and does a great job of paraphrasing significant points. Topics are interesting and I always learn something I can pass along to my clients.

Truth-saying by psychiatric survivors and thoughtful researchers; what is really going on with people experiencing spiritual distress, unusual states of consciousness, or simple pain as a result of the madness of modern society. Gently led by interviewer Will Hall.

This program is one of my favorites. It challenges the myths and the accepted ideas surrounding mental illness in a very lucid way. Hope comes with alternate stories. I can't recommend it enough. It's scholarly but accessible to the average thinker.

One of the best.Great interviews and informative.The host has a very soothing presence.Well done.

I am so grateful for Madness Radio! Will Hall is amazing and quite brave to stand up to the stigma of mental health in such a selfless way. A large variety of topics are covered, with the emphasis on alternative views of mental illness beyond the biomedical perspective. It's healed my heart and mind - keep them coming! Thanks to all who work on the program - especially Will!!

This is a great podcast. Wonderful dialogue about very challenging issues in mental health treatment and perception. Professionally done.

Will Hall is incredible. He finds topics and subjects to interview that are thought provoking in the extreme. His interview style does not shy away from very difficult questions as he adds insight to dialogues those in the mental health field would be well advised to listen to and those of us who experience extreme states of consciousness can relate to with relief. I am impressed and delighted with every download.

Will Hall interviews an eclectic array of psychiatric survivors, activists, patients and clinicians about the insults and injustices of the "mental health" system, and gives advice, tips, suggestions and anecdotes for those who have been through it and come out the other side.

A very thought provoking show. It may just change how you view the world and the "mad" people who live in it.

A superb podcast. This is one of the best kept secrets out there. I find the epsiodes very informative. This serves as the "rounding out" of my mental health counseling training. A professional, thoughtful production.

The interviews on this show are always interesting, if not earth shattering. Insightful criticism of the prevailing medicalization of mental states is what this show specializes in, but it's not some kind of all-or-nothing anarcho soapbox. Hall makes sure to give you the multi-faceted view of the story, but always keeps in mind that we're all pretty familiar with what Wyeth, SmithKlien, and Pfizer have to say about mental "illness".

As a person with a "psychiatric label" and a history of sometimes intense alienation,this show has provided me with support and a much needed sense of kinship that's literally made my life much more livable at times.Will Hall is fantastic and the guests are always interesting.I have immense gratitude for everyone that makes this show possible.Thank-you from the bottom of my heart.

Finally a radio show that delivers some truth in a mental health world dominated by pharmaceutical company deception and corruption. Week after week Madness Radio delivers thoughtful, compassionate dialogue from the real experts from around the world.