#254 Andrea Abbate

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2015

⏱️ 168 minutes

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The 59 year-old comic/writer shares about being a Scientologist,her eating disorder, drug addiction surviving incest (by her father) and her beautiful but suicidal mother's loose grasp on reality. 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.
0:02.8	Welcome to episode 254 with my guest Andrea Abbott.
0:06.2	I'm Paul Gilmarton.
0:07.4	This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads
0:11.9	from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive
0:17.4	negative thinking.
0:18.8	This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:22.0	It's not a doctor's office.
0:23.8	I'm not a therapist.
0:24.8	I'm barely a human being.
0:27.8	Have I made that point clear?
0:29.9	I'm a jackass that used to tell dick jokes on television while chicken simmered in the
0:36.2	background.
0:39.6	The website for this, and I'm not a therapist.
0:42.6	The website for this show is mentalpod.com, the newly redesigned website, who getting
0:48.3	lots of really nice comments and very, very happy that we finally got that to take place.
0:56.8	Yeah, go check out the website, mentalpod.com.
0:59.8	You can also follow me on Twitter at mentalpod.
1:03.4	I am considering turning the podcast nonprofit, and there's a form.
1:13.7	There are forms that you need to fill out to apply for nonprofit status.
1:19.6	One of the things I'm looking at is becoming a, I don't know what you even call it, but
1:26.0	another nonprofit would take me under their wing and kind of help me get the nonprofit
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