The Postpartum Thoughts We’re Afraid to Say Out Loud | Postpartum Mental Health Concern
After her first child was born, Andrea Patterson thought she was a bad mom. She was barely sleeping, overwhelmed by anxiety, and afraid to s...
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Honouring Connections While Supporting Others | Artifacts of Grief
Brian recently joined our friends at Artifacts of Grief to talk about the loss of Alex MacKenzie, his partner’s father, and the complicated...
Second Opinion: A Vasectomy, an Escaped Eyeball & a Hospital Love Triangle
Welcome to Second Opinion — a new Sickboy series where Jeremie digs up wild medical stories, healthcare encounters and morally questionable...
She Was Hit By a Car at 4, Then Her Broken Bone Grew Too Long | Limb Length Discrepancy
Most people kick off their shoes to relax. For Laura, taking off her shoes drops her spine four centimeters and instantly throws her body ou...
The Exorcism Of Rose | Surviving Pediatric Psychosis & PANS
What happens when a routine childhood cold turns your sweet eight-year-old into a full-blown horror movie scene overnight? Sickboy royalty J...
They Fed Him RAT POISON to Win Olympic Gold | The 1904 Marathon From Hell
Jeremie was just looking into the history of performance-enhancing drugs when he accidentally stumbled into the absolute dumpster fire that...
"No, I'm Not Drunk, It's Cerebral Palsy" | Bipolar, ARFID & 10 other Diagnoses
Surviving eight shots of Narcan at twelve years old is one hell of an introduction to chronic illness, and for Haylee, that was just the tip...
Cured by a Psychotic Break: Surviving a Trip to Hell & Back
Meet Judy. She’s a real estate agent who inadvertently became an extreme sports athlete in the deadly game of "Halifax Crosswalks". After ge...
No Cortisol, No Chill: Navigating Addison’s, ADHD & C-PTSD
What happens when your body suddenly decides to stop making the exact hormone that keeps you alive? Meet Sarah, a badass who trains in Muay...
Reclaiming the Breast: Healing Body Trauma with Prosthetic Nips
How do you convince the CRA that bulk silicone nipples are a legitimate business expense? This week, the fellas sit down with Miranda, affec...
Cockblocking Mosquitoes: The Genetic Fight Against Malaria
What happens when a deep-seated thirst for childhood revenge turns into a career in genetic engineering? You get an absolute badass who is p...
Placebos, Psychosis, and Why We Need Human Flesh (Not Like That)
What happens when the doctor treating you is a cold, calculating AI trained on the deepest, darkest, most biased corners of the internet? Th...
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...
Surviving 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...