AFM19 Web You probably know Sheila Hamilton as the director and host of KINK FM’s Morning Show, on the air weekdays from 5:00 a.m. (Sheesh!) to 9:30 a.m. She’s smart. She’s witty. She has a great voice. Whether the topic is politics, culture, music, or fashion (and she’s definitely one of Portland’s most fashionable figures), […]
The December issue of The Atlantic just went online a few days ago, and it’s already landed in my inbox a half a dozen times. The senders know me as a mental health advocate, a radio host and the author of a new book called ‘All the Things We Never Knew, Chasing the Chaos of […]
A conversation with FOX News Health host, Dr. Manny Alvarez. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Mental illness, unlike breast cancer, isn’t celebrated with big marches or pink ribbons. The stigma is stifling and it prevents most people from seeking help. David, my husband, refused to accept the label of bipolar disorder. He could not […]
On this episode of “Watching the Hawks” Sheila Hamilton joins Tyrel and Tabetha to talk about the bane of mental illness in our society and how the pharmaceutical industry is not properly equipped to help people cope with their psychological disorders.
It’s been nine years this week since my late husband David died by suicide. Everything about this time of year releases a cascade of emotion that is unbearable, the softening of the light, the gold and amber in the leaves, the heat during the day dissipating to cold nights. There is a vivid memory of […]
A reader of my book, ‘All The Things We Never Knew’ suggested it would be impossible to be married to someone for ten years and not realize that they had a mental illness: Dear Grandma in Arizona, I’d like to give you some insight into my experience of loving someone with a mental illness. Contrary […]
A reporter wrote me the other day asking for a quote in the wake of the Roseburg shooting. She wanted to talk about how mental illness is being stigmatized by the NRA. “Is it a gun problem,” she asked, “Or a mental health problem?” “It’s not either, or.” I answered. “It’s both.” In Roseburg, in […]
I was one of the television reporters on the scene of Oregon’s first mass shooting, May 21, 1998. When Kip Kinkel opened fire in a lunchroom full of his fellow classmates, many of the students thought the sounds of gunfire was a joke or they would have ducked for cover sooner. I’ll never forget the […]
The tweet of a lifetime. Sometimes, 142 characters does a lot of heavy lifting. I interviewed the brilliant, smart, lovely @SheilaHamilton about her great new memoir, All the Things We Never Knew: https://t.co/v8PoEclzkx — Cheryl Strayed (@CherylStrayed) September 28, 2015 Click the Soundcloud link here https://soundcloud.com/kinkfm/ny-times-bestselling-author-cheryl-strayed-interviews-sheila-hamilton?utm_source=soundcloud as the fabulous Cheryl Strayed interviews Sheila Hamilton. ‘All […]
Ty Taylor is the explosive and dynamic frontman for Vintage Trouble, a funk, soul and rock band out of Los Angeles who is now playing to crowds upward of 125,000. The band has opened for the Rolling Stones, The Who, and just finished touring with ACDC. I don’t know who loves them more, the critics […]
