2018 Year Ender - Awfulsome Traditions

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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No guests, just some of Paul's thoughts on traditions and holidays; how we hide our feelings and some great, very honest (and one very dark) listener surveys including the best holiday Awfulsome moment yet. Support Our Sponsors! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling. To get a free week go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18. WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST ______________________ Subscribe via iTunes and leave a review. It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2 ————————————————————————— Spread the word via social media. It costs nothing. Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod -------------------------------------------------------------- Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal or Zelle (make payment to [email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try Our Sponsor’s Products/Services --------------------------------------------------- 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.

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0:00.0	Miss Fit toys.
0:02.0	Welcome to episode 415, our final one of 2018.
0:07.0	I got some surveys. I want to read some really beautiful ones.
0:10.0	Some pretty fucking dark ones too.
0:12.0	A couple of happy ones.
0:15.0	And in one that's just awful, somely odd and beautiful.
0:22.0	And a Christmas one at the end that I just think
0:26.0	sums up Christmas so beautifully.
0:29.0	Cause I, you know, I have some thoughts on traditions.
0:34.0	For the longest time I felt like there was something wrong with me that I didn't enjoy weddings.
0:40.0	I didn't enjoy Thanksgiving. I didn't enjoy Christmas.
0:44.0	New Year's I enjoyed because I was in, that's where everybody would be as drunk as I normally was.
0:51.0	And I could blend in.
0:52.0	But I just don't like getting or giving gifts out of obligation.
0:59.0	You know, I, once a year we're essentially getting together and stalking each other's future garage sales.
1:07.0	That's, and it's not that people don't give a shit in giving the gifts.
1:14.0	Sometimes just people look really close to us don't even know us.
1:18.0	And I believe that most people aren't inherently good, but silently just consumed with something that's making them hurt.
1:27.0	And so we don't often connect other people.
1:31.0	Or we avoid them out of shame or sense of feeling different.
1:36.0	And for me, maybe I'm alone in this, but the happier the tradition, the more fucked up my thoughts are.
1:44.0	Like sometimes if I'm watching a father walk his daughter down the aisle, sometimes I'm really moved.
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