“Mental illness isn’t funny, but living with one sure can be!”

… At least that’s our hosts motto.

Oh hello! Welcome to the Therapy Would Be Cheaper podcast! Where we believe mental illness isn’t funny, but living with one sure can be! I’m your host Kenzie Rowland. 

Right out of the gate, I am not a therapist, I’m a comedian. This podcast is not a diagnosis show or a therapy session. I advocate heavily for therapy, I go to therapy, every one of my guests goes to therapy and I hope you go to therapy, too! But this is not therapy. That being said, I hope this podcast IS therapeutic. See what I did there?

I created this podcast because I believe comedy has the power to bring people together even in the darkest of places. Living with a mental illness can feel incredibly lonely and isolating. I would know, I’m the proud owner of OCD, a sexual abuse survivor, an anorexia survivor and an all around neurotic (but fun!) mess. For most of my life I walked around feeling really alone in my struggles, too. The only thing that ever made me feel better during my own recovery was getting up the nerve to tell a friend a really embarrassing story of something I did because of my anxiety and my friend going…oh my god same! That’s what I hope this podcast is for you.

As I said, I have obsessive compulsive disorder which is one of the most debilitating mental illnesses to live with. For example, my untreated OCD once convinced me that my cat may become a mother-less orphan because I might have toxic shock syndrome because I couldn’t remember if I took my tampon out...turns out... I wasn’t even on my period.

All that to say, we’re not making fun of or judging any mental illnesses, we’re simply making light of the ridiculous ways we dealt with it before we finally went to therapy. And let me tell you, the hospital bill I got after I was convinced I was dying of toxic shock syndrome, was well... Therapy Would’ve Been Cheaper.

My hope with the Therapy Would Be Cheaper Podcast is this:  By speaking really candidly about topics and stories that are usually hush hush, we break this stigma surrounding mental health and hopefully make anyone listening feel less alone. As always, I love you and I’m so glad you’re here.