Subjects/subject
mental health
2019-11-10, 1 mention2020-05-03, 1 mention2020-09-20, 1 mention2021-04-11, 1 mention2021-05-30, 1 mention2021-06-27, 1 mention2021-12-15, 1 mention2022-05-29, 2 mentions2023-01-08, 1 mention2023-06-18, 1 mention2024-04-27, 1 mention2025-07-26, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He keeps drawing a line between his mother's actual schizophrenia and what he calls the Instagram-diagnosed version, and uses that contrast to say destigmatization talk is empty without funding 14:46 28:47 41:40. He argues repeatedly that the country doesn't actually care about mental health — that there's no real infrastructure, institutionalization is nearly impossible, and getting his mother committed was a fight with Medicare 5:30 10:36 1:13:52. He also calls out people who tweet about mental health awareness all day while trying to bully someone off Twitter, and says that's the same hypocrisy at scale 15:06. Elsewhere he links declining institutionalization rates to rising crime and violence, citing his own friends he thinks should be locked up and stories like mass shootings and murder-suicides as evidence untreated illness is being ignored rather than addressed 52:23 9:16 46:04 28:18. The one time he's just straightforwardly pro-therapy is reading a BetterHelp ad 18:17.
Every Reference (13)
"all of these people tweet about mental health every day and how important is self-care and then they're trying to tweet you out of a window"
Comedy Camps, Twitter Mobs, and Jealousy Among Comics — #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show+216s into the segment"because she burned the house down because she didn't get any mental health care and she was hooking because she was molested by her father"
The Homeless Vietnam Vet Commencement Speech Bit — #198 - I'm A Hero | The Tim Dillon Show+112s into the segment"mental health is a big deal right now everybody is nuts that's out there they're all bonkers they're all batshit crazy you need to get help"
BetterHelp and the Importance of Mental Health — #218 - Fake Business | The Tim Dillon Show+3s into the segment"and you'd ask them what medications they were on yeah it's mental health care in this country is really just a non-event it's just uh"
Texas Building a Wall Against Californians and the Ultra-Luxury Market — #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show+189s into the segment"everything now is about destigmatizing mental health which i don't even know what that means how about funding it fun give give it funding and help people that are insane i don't know what destigmatizing mental health means"
Destigmatizing People Who Don't Want to Kill Themselves — #254 - Apocalypse Olympics with Abby Martin | The Tim Dillon Show+55s into the segment"get rid of this this is very sad uh mental health and and mental health awareness is such a theme of the show because of my mother"
The Suspicious Death of Christopher Sign and the Clinton Tarmac Story — #258 - Fat Recluse | The Tim Dillon Show+67s into the segment"if you had less police and less funding for police and you were able to take this money and give it to these other things perhaps that'd be a long-term benefit"
Mental Illness and the Crime Conversation Taboo — #280 - Nervous Neurotic Animal | The Tim Dillon Show+154s into the segment"there is something mentally going on where we have a huge mental health crisis this doesn't mean you should be able to get a gun at 7-eleven"
Should Cops Have Rushed In? Football Rivalries and Sociopath Pipelines — #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show+137s into the segment"that's never their second point no they never go we got a mental health crisis we should have uh health care right that's never point"
Daniel Defense's Tone-Deaf Tweet and Mental Health Scapegoating — #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show+77s into the segment"randomly scroll through Twitter how many people talk about their mental health and how bad they're meant yes it's it's well it's because I"
Mother's Schizophrenia vs. Instagram Mental Illness — The Joe Rogan Experience | #330"did you hear about this yeah yeah this is crazy uh gunman kills six and horrific murder suicide including three kids as its revealed wife feared he would get drunk and shoot"
The Dippin Dots CEO Strangling Scandal — How To Help | The Tim Dillon Show #350+172s into the segment"they don't care about the mental health of adults it it it's not what it is this is not a country designed because we want to help people's uh mental health"
The Government Doesn't Care About Your Mental Health — Harvey Weinstein's Overturned Conviction & TikTok Ban | The Tim Dillon Show #390+48s into the segment"And some people go, "Well, it's because now there are terms for mental health." And we're talking more about mental health. And in my comedy special, I talk a little bit about that."
World Happiness Report: Young People Are Unhappy, Lithuania Wins — Gaza Famine, Brigitte's Hog, & The Happiness Survey | The Tim Dillon Show #455+37s into the segment