Confessions of a Gen-X Mind: Mental Health, Family Systems, and Personal Growth
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind is a reflective mental health podcast about family systems, identity, and what happens when you finally see your life clearly.
Told from a Gen-X perspective shaped by media, technology, and decades of lived experience, each episode explores the quieter side of mental health. Not crisis. Not quick fixes. But awareness, integration, and emotional adulthood.
Through personal storytelling, cultural observation, and honest self-examination, the show looks at inherited roles, family dynamics, neurodivergence, boundaries, and the process of choosing healthier ground later in life. It is about naming patterns without bitterness, honoring what was good, accepting what never was, and building forward with clarity.
This is a podcast for listeners who are thoughtful, self-aware, and no longer interested in pretending. For those who have reached a point where reflection matters more than performance, and peace matters more than approval.
New episodes arrive as part of ongoing thematic arcs rather than constant noise. This is a place to slow down, think clearly, and feel a little less alone.
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind: Mental Health, Family Systems, and Personal Growth
The Story I Couldn’t Tell Until Now: Autism, ADHD, and Some Kind of Monster
This episode started with Metallica.
It ended with a brain scan.
And it changed how I understand myself.
This is the story of how a lifelong Metallica fan, a SPECT brain scan, and fifty years of family misunderstanding collided into one overdue revelation. From learning guitar because of Metallica, to Ferris Buellering my way into the Ozzfest media pit, to watching Some Kind of Monster and realizing that even the strongest guy in the room can ask for help.
That documentary cracked something open in me. It made me wonder if I could stop pretending everything was fine and actually look inward. So I did something I never expected to do. I went to the Amen Clinic and had my brain scanned, like I was auditioning for a late-night PBS science special.
The results said the quiet part out loud.
I was never bipolar.
I was autistic and ADHD the whole time.
This episode weaves together music, grief, dark humor, family patterns, burnout, confusion, and the scan that finally told the truth everyone else missed. Not as a diagnosis hunt, but as clarity. Context. And relief.
Six minutes that changed the story I’d been telling myself for decades.
