#262 Jessie Close

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

The 62 year-old opens up about living with Bipolar I (with psychotic episodes and rapid cycling), battling alcoholism, being in abusive relationships, being married 5 times, having a son with Schizo-Affective Disorder and getting support from her sister, actress Glenn Close. Jessie and Glenn co-wrote the book Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness. and started the foundation to advocate for people with mental illnesses Bring Change 2 Mind. 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	Welcome to episode 262 with my guest, Jesse Close.
0:06.4	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:07.4	This is the metal illness.
0:08.5	Happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:12.8	From medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:17.6	compulsive negative thinking.
0:19.1	And this shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:22.8	I'm not a doctor.
0:24.4	This is a...
0:25.4	I'm not a therapist.
0:26.6	This isn't a doctor's office.
0:28.6	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:31.3	The website for this show is mentalpod.com.
0:34.4	A mental pod is also the Twitter handle you can follow me at.
0:37.9	Go check out the website.
0:39.8	You can join the forum there.
0:41.2	You can fill out surveys that we might read on the show.
0:45.4	You can see how other people filled out surveys.
0:48.8	All kinds of good things.
0:52.0	Let's get to it.
0:53.0	I've even though the interview with Jesse is on the short side, I've got a lot of
0:58.2	surveys that I don't know if I'll be able to get through all of them.
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