For Chris, a life-altering psychotic episode in 2017 brought everything into question. We discuss the profound impact of this event, exploring themes of fear and the journey of healing. This is a story about rupture, recovery, and the challenging process of rebuilding trust with one's own mind after experiencing significant mental illness.
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Some moments don't give you a warning. Chris Magleby was 36 years old, happily married, building a successful tech company, when a cannabis-induced psychotic episode shattered everything he thought he knew, including how well he knew himself.
In this episode of The Life Shift Podcast, Chris shares the full story: the psychosis, the mania, the two and a half years of acute anxiety that followed, and the slow, honest work of rebuilding his relationship with his own mind. He talks about what it means to control everything until you can't anymore, how mindfulness became a survival tool, and why he eventually channeled all of it into Mindless Labs, a mental health startup built for people who know what it's like to feel lost inside their own heads.
What you'll hear in this episode:
- How his parents' divorce at age 9 shaped his relationship with control
- The night a psychotic episode changed everything (and what those hours actually felt like)
- What the two and a half years of recovery really looked like
- How mindfulness, meditation, and therapy helped him find his way back
- Why he founded Mindless Labs and what drives him to keep going
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