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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#197 Chris Gethard (voted #7 ep of 2014)

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Relationships, Sexuality, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2014

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

The actor/writer opens up about his blue collar New Jersey upbringing, and his battles with anger, sadness, self-sabotage, paranoia, addiction, depression and the unorthodox nurse practitioner who has helped him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 197 with my guest, Chris Getherd.

0:06.1

I'm Paul Gilmart and this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.

0:09.2

Honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas

0:13.9

and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

0:18.0

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

0:21.0

I am not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office.

0:24.5

It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.

0:26.6

The website for this show is mentholpod.com.

0:29.6

Metal pod is also the Twitter handle you can follow me at.

0:33.4

And go check out the website.

0:35.4

There is a forum you can join.

0:38.1

You can fill out surveys.

0:39.7

You can see how other people filled out surveys.

0:42.4

And those of you that are regular listeners know the surveys are a big part of the show

0:45.9

and it's where a lot of people dump their secrets and their pains and their struggles.

0:51.0

And many of them quite eloquently.

0:55.9

It was between eloquently and eloquently.

1:01.9

Yeah, eloquent.

1:02.9

It was very eloquent of you.

1:06.1

So yeah, go check out the website and let us get to it.

1:12.0

I think that's all I want to mention that I'm going to be in Toronto Saturday, November

1:18.8

15th as part of the rendezvous with Madness Film Festival.

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