107: Junk Knowledge with Marques Marchand
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to author Marques Marchand about addiction, dual diagnoses, and understanding your past.
Christmas 2009, Marques was working at a restaurant and woke up with flu-like symptoms. He hit rock bottom a year later, and decided to quit everything cold, right after Thanksgiving. He struggled to keep friendships and work, and eventually he snapped. From 2006-2010, he sought mental health advice from therapists.
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His recovery process was long and arduous. Besides going to the ER every couple of weeks and racking up thousands of dollars of debt, he also discovered he was an alcoholic and had bipolar disorder type II. Now with a few different medications, the help of the 12-step programs, and better health practices, Marques has been able to free himself from the ups and downs of his addictive behavior.
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Sometime in his 30s, while working as a concierge in San Francisco, Marques started writing and it took off. He originally started by just telling his story in Junk Knowledge, but he hasn’t been able to satiate the writing bug since. He loves the idea of working through his shame and helping other people to work through recovery by sharing his own story.
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Marques is about to publish his third book, which is not about addiction, but rather about his time working in the hotel industry. He describes his time leading up to COVID and how that affected his industry. He works a full time job working for his uncle’s business, but now he also has a lot of time to help people in his neighborhood. The one thing he’d like to tell listeners is that the beginning of a healthy, successful life is to first reach out. “Don’t be afraid to be a fool for your life,” Marques says. Someone is going to want to listen to you and help. There are so many people going through the same thing. Take a chance on yourself for your own recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | My name is Dwayne Austerlund, and I'm your host. |
| 0:13.0 | We are on to episode 107. |
| 0:17.7 | My guest today is Marcus Pashad, and he is the author of two books and some upcoming books as well. |
| 0:25.6 | But his two that he has out now is junk knowledge and the darkest chapter, messy guide to dual diagnosis. |
| 0:33.0 | So Marcus comes on to the podcast, and he talks about his story and journey of addiction and getting |
| 0:39.9 | sober. But more importantly, he talks about dealing with his own dual diagnosis of bipolar disorder |
| 0:49.0 | and how he gets support and help and walks through that process and creates his life that feels good for him, |
| 0:57.7 | moving out of depression and hypomania to a place where he feels good and productive and is really |
| 1:05.6 | enjoying his life. A super energetic conversation. It was great talking to Marcus and getting to know him and getting |
| 1:12.0 | to know his story. You can tell he's passionate and passionate about getting this story out to |
| 1:17.5 | others so they can understand that they're not alone or that they can get support. So I think |
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