#277 Religious Abuse - Hilary A

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 139 minutes

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The 32 year-old shares about breaking free from her mother (and their religion Christian Science) after years of her using scripture as a weapon to justify her neglectful, unempathetic and narcissistic parenting. She also shares about her history of panic attacks/fear of choking, and trichotillomania. 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 277 with my guest Hillary A. I'm Paul Gilmarten. This is the metal illness
0:08.0	happy hour. A place for honesty about all the battles in our heads for a medically diagnosed
0:13.2	conditions past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:19.2	There shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling. It's not
0:25.2	a doctor's office. I'm not a therapist. It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:29.6	The website for this show is mental pod dot com. Please go there. Check it out. You can fill out
0:35.8	surveys. Maybe we'll read your survey on the show. You can join the forum. You can read blogs.
0:41.4	You can support the show financially. All kinds of things. Oh, I'm going to be in Portland.
0:48.1	Let's see. This is going up on Friday the 13th. So I will be taping looper banks show.
1:00.0	Wednesday afternoon, the I forget what the date is. I'm such an asshole. I'm so unprepared.
1:10.9	Anyway, I'm really looking forward to meeting Luke and hopefully recording him as well. He's
1:17.3	been a great supporter of this of this show. And I get to go to Portland. I love Portland. Anyway,
1:23.8	I wish I had prepared enough to have information about going to see the taping. I believe it's
1:31.5	called live wire is the NPR show that he hosts. And yeah, I'm a terrible human being. Can we
1:42.8	agree on that? We do. Let's move on. Here's some surveys. These are all struggling in a sentence
1:50.8	survey. Cathode Ray writes about her depression. I am on one side of a glass wall trying to get my
1:57.0	emotions attention to truly feel anything besides depression and anxiety. Boy, do I relate?
2:05.3	Or I should say have I related to to that one? That feeling of plexiglass.
2:12.5	Lila writes about her overeating food is my anchor to the world. If I eat, I know that I still
2:18.4	exist and can still feel things and can have relief from the cesspool of negative thoughts in my
2:24.0	brain. I snapshot from her life the other day during my break from work while I was eating my lunch,
2:29.1	I found myself in this loop of negative thoughts moving towards a panic attack. So I went to a coffee
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