My Brain Turned Into the Devil at Age 12 | Severe ADHD & Alcoholism
What happens when your internal monologue switches from a storybook narrator to a demonic bully at age 12? Live from downtown Halifax, the g...
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20 of 910 episodesSurviving Cancer Only to Get Decapitated by Wyoming
What would you do if you moved out to LA at 18 to chase your dreams, but got handed a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and a 5-year expirati...
Breathless: The Impossible Milestones | Cystic Fibrosis
This week on Sickboy we bring you the first episode of the latest season of Breathless. We're proud as heck with how this panned out and fee...
The Truth About Hypnobirthing (And Why It Might Be Gaslighting You)
What if you could turn off the most agonizing pain imaginable just by thinking about a waterfall? Or better yet, what if a guy in a purple s...
One Black Man’s experience in Battling Cystic Fibrosis
What do you do when a life-saving medical breakthrough saves almost everyone in your chronic illness community—except you? If you’re new to...
Arguing With "Dr. Dickhead" At The Transplant Clinic | 8 Autoimmune Diseases
What do you do when your own immune system decides to treat your organs like an all-you-can-eat buffet and drops eight separate medical diag...
"Has She Seen You Naked?" & Other Caregiver Confessions
What happens when the person keeping you alive is also the person roasting your life choices the hardest? If you’re new to the show, Brock i...
My Brain Exploded (Twice) | Sunken Bone Flap Syndrome
What happens when your brain is a literal ticking time bomb and nobody tells you until it goes off? Meet Martin. At 16, he was just a normal...
When Running Breaks Your Vagina | Osteitis Pubis
What happens when you think you have a stubborn UTI, but you’ve actually fractured your pubic bone from running too many damn marathons? Thi...
Why Is a Super Bowl Champ Talking About HPV?
What does a Super Bowl champion know about a virus most men think is "just a women's problem"? Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has spent his life pr...
Dating a Psychologist with Cerebral Palsy (It’s a Mindf*ck)
What do you do when you’re born with a brain-body communication glitch?. If you’re Dr. Dan, you don't just "manage". You go out and collect...
Flying High & Pooping Low: A Flight Surgeon’s Guide to Colon Cancer
What do high-performance fighter jets and a stage four cancer diagnosis have in common? More than you think. This week, we’re joined by Dr....
15 Weeks Early & 8 Days Apart: The Trauma of a Micro-Preemie Birth
What happens when your body decides to Marie Kondo your entire large intestine, but the healthcare system treats your "vestibule" like an op...
"My Brain is Draining Into My Stomach" | Spina Bifida
What do you do when your spine decides to "leak" before you're even born, leaving you with a "jizzy back rat" and a tube running from your b...
“I Was Sh*tting Blood and Still Playing” | Ulcerative Colitis Athlete
What happens when you go from a senior spring break in Jamaica to poopin "gallons of blood" in the ER? Meet Taryn: 20 years old, a D1 volley...
Born Without an Eye | Unilateral Anaphthalmia & The Disability Spectrum
What happens when you’re born with a medical anomaly so rare that doctors treat you like a "cluster of defects," but you grow up feeling com...
Getting Your Back Blown Out | $40K Hernia
It may have started with a joke about getting his "back blown out", but it turned into a wild story of a two-year medical saga involving bru...
Your Body is Allergic to... Everything? | Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
What happens when the person paid to have all the answers suddenly gets hit with a medical mystery that turns their world entirely upside do...
"I Fell 11 Stories and Should be Dead” | Walking Paraplegic
What happens when your paragliding wing folds in half 165 feet in the air, sending you on an 11-story plunge directly onto your ass? (Spoile...
16% Diaphragm, 100% Genius: How AI is Saving Cho’s Voice
What happens when your body is slowly losing its ability to breathe, but your brain is busy building the future of technology? This week, th...