#238 Gladys A.

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2015

⏱️ 158 minutes

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The 26 year-old adoptee (from Paraguay) shares about growing up with an emotionally disturbed sibling and single mom, experiencing racism at her all-white school, and turning to porn and escorting to pay the bills while pursuing her dream of screenwriting. She currently volunteers at the Sex Workers Outreach Project LA http://www.swop-losangeles.org/about-1.html 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.
0:02.6	Welcome to episode 237 with my guest, Gladys A.
0:06.3	I'm Paul Gilmarten, is the mental illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all the
0:10.4	battles in our heads, for medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction
0:20.9	to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:23.8	The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:27.6	It's not a doctor's office, I'm not a therapist.
0:30.3	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:33.0	The website for this show is a mental pod.com.
0:36.1	There's all kinds of stuff you can do there.
0:37.7	You can join the forum.
0:38.7	You can read blogs.
0:40.0	You can fill out a survey, which we like to read on the show.
0:44.6	Even if your survey isn't read on the show, usually gets read and it helps us get to know
0:53.8	who you are better.
0:57.6	I shared with you guys last week about the shooting, the suicide by cop that I had seen
1:05.3	the week before.
1:08.2	I think I experienced the first...
1:12.8	I hesitate to use the word PTSD because that might mean for a minute not minimizing something
1:19.8	that happened to me or that I am experiencing.
1:24.0	I was in the grocery store with my wife last weekend.
1:30.6	This would have been about a week after the event happened.
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