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Welcome to Acceptable Madness! I have no problem admitting that I struggle with depression everyday of my life, and you know what? That's okay. I like using my words as an emotional outlet,...
I love this podcast, and that's why I think it's time for me to take a step back for a little while. I just haven't been feeling up to makin...
This week’s episode is going to be a relaxing one. Well, at least I hope so! I just sat back and talked about my life, what’s been going on,...
Of course! I love animals and always have. When I was young, I grew up with two dogs and many three cats, and the second I went to college,...
Planning might be the most boring topic in the world, but it's still something that needs to be talked about. Planning is important in all w...
Admittedly, I'm no master of chess, so I don't know if this is true. That said, I've spent a lot of my free time playing chess recently and...
This is something that I think about every day, but I decided that it's finally time to make an episode about it. College is brutal. I don't...
What better time is there to talk about burnout than when you're burnt out? In this episode, I talk about the constant exhaustion I've been...
This week, I'm covering a topic that I think is one of the most important that I've talked about recently. Saying no and setting boundaries...
This is a topic that, if you're anything like me, is a hard one to grasp. It's really easy to think that you’re not worth as much as you act...
Knowing that your mental illness doesn’t define you isn’t a novel concept. Each and every one of us is a unique and special person, but some...
This episode is about stress. Stress is a normal part of everyday life and learning to cope with it is an essential skill that everyone need...
So, this probably isn't the question you expected me to ask, but it's one that I asked myself recently. After weeks of low motivation, irrit...
I know that it was in eighth grade that my depression really started. Before that, I was a happy-go-lucky kid who thought he was happy and g...
When something negative affects your life, there is no straightforward way to cope with it. No matter how you cope with the situation, it's...
I have recently been affected by something very close to me, and as I cope with the challenge of it, I've witnessed the many different ways...
Getting in touch with your emotions is hard work. Do you want to know how I know that? Well, this is the 109th episode of this podcast and I...
I'll never claim to be a perfect person. It's just not possible to be perfect, and I don't strive for it. What I can say is that over the co...
For me, depression is that creeping feeling that makes me want to give up all hope. It tells me that I'm terrible, that I'm bad at everythin...
I could tell you what everyone else in the world is telling you about the holidays. I could say that going to see your family is terrible be...
I've talked about routine before, and I always talk about how great it is. Having some sense of what you're going to do can be really good f...
Okay, so it's not so much about "nothing" per se, but it's about feeling relaxed, not stressed, and for a brief moment, like I wasn't depres...
For all the time I talk on this podcast about the revelations that I've had about myself, I'm still no expert on me. Sometimes I need to rea...
Hey - you there! Thanks for joining me for another episode of the podcast. This week, I talk about figuring out priorities. What inspired me...
Have you ever thought about diving into something and immersing yourself so completely so that you don't have to worry about the thoughts go...
It's been a long road - after a little over 2 years, it's time to celebrate Acceptable Madness' 100th birthday. In that short amount of time...
Love and depression are like potato chips and chocolate; they seem like they shouldn't go together but they're actually a magical combinatio...
There are so many things in the world that we are amazing at, average at, and terrible at. Now, I like to focus on the things that I'm amazi...
Hi! I hope you're ready to sit back and relax while we talk about the future. A friend of mine recently told me that to feel better about th...
Past Scott would beat me up for this episode, but I have to admit that education is awesome. No matter why you learn, whether it's to become...
Okay, hear me out with this one. No one likes deadlines, I know. At work or school, they stress you out. If you miss one, it can feel very d...
The next what, you may ask? Well, the next... anything! It's not always easy to keep pushing forward through whatever you're dealing with. L...
We all know the feeling. You feel inspiration to chase something new and exciting in your life, and the second you get ready to work on it,...
Taking a break seems like it should be such an easy thing to do. You just... do that thing that makes you feel relaxed, right? But it's not...
This week, I wanted to try something a little different. Instead of talking about what's going on with me and my life, I talk about the song...
Stress isn't an easy thing to manage. It's one of life's many "things" that seem to beat all rational, and prevent you from thinking clearly...
I'm not a superstitious person, but the concept of destiny has always interested me. Feeling that you have this purpose set for you by someo...
I've been watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, and through all of the awesome fighting and world building, the character that sticks out mos...
My book, Trying Not to Kill Myself, comes out THIS FRIDAY! It's been a long process, from writing, editing, cover design, formatting, and ev...
Ya know, not everything in the world is great (as I'm sure you've already noticed.) That doesn't make the world bad or terrible to live on,...
I don't like my wrists, my hair is too curly, and when I gain weight, it shows itself in the most undesirable of places. My body isn't perfe...
Ever wonder what the "Scott McKinney Solution to Happiness" (Patent Pending) is? Well here it is in all of its glory! But for real, I talk a...
There is no clear-cut definition for depression that encompasses everyone who struggles with it since it affects everyone differently; howev...
There are a ton of things happening in the world right now, and they're things that many of us likely never expected in our lifetimes, our k...
It's a weird time to be alive. There are protests all over, COVID-19 is still being a butthead, and the rate at which unexpecting things hap...
In this episode, I (metaphorically) strip down and look at my naked body in the mirror and ask myself about what I'm doing with Acceptable M...
Whoa, I'm engaged! That's pretty exciting, right? Being in a committed Whoa, I'm engaged! That's pretty exciting, right? Being in a committe...
We're all stuck at home. We're all tired of being stuck at home. We're all stressed for a multitude of different reasons, whether it's from...
Hello and thanks for tuning into another episode of Acceptable Madness! In this episode, I talk about progress, and how progressing or impro...
Hello and thanks for checking out another episode of Acceptable Madness! Although the title of this episode seems kind of weird and super no...
I know that in the past, I have talked about hobbies as almost entirely creativity based ventures, and I believe that that is short-sighted....