#290 Maddy F - Learning to Love Yourself

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

You hear the phrase "love yourself" a lot. But how do we get there? Maddy's story is a great example. She was molested by a relative (and church leader) but didn't feel safe enough to speak up about it for years. Then she got help and everything changed. This episode is sponsored by Casper Mattresses. To find out more go to www.casper.com/mental To buy tickets for the In This Together Festival on Nov 13th go to www.ittfest.com To buy watch or attend LAPodfest Sept 23-25 go to www.lapodfest.com and use offer code HAPPY To sign the petition Maddy was talking about that looks to abolish the statute of limitations on childhood sex abuse cases go to https://www.change.org/p/abolish-the-statute-of-limitations-for-child-sexual-abuse-in-the-state-of-california 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 290 with my guest, Maddie.
0:05.6	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:06.6	This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:11.5	For medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive
0:17.5	negative thinking.
0:18.8	This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:23.2	I'm not a doctor, but I am a hypocontriac.
0:26.9	And that's got to count for something.
0:28.8	The website for this show is metalpod.com.
0:32.3	Metalpod is also the Twitter handle you can follow me at.
0:36.4	Go to the website, metalpod.com.
0:38.6	There's all kinds of things you can fill out a survey anonymously, and maybe we'll
0:42.6	read your survey on the show.
0:44.9	Even if we don't read it out loud on the show, it can help people browsing the surveys,
0:52.1	feel less alone about themselves.
0:54.7	We can learn more about people in general, more about you and your issues or your story.
1:02.4	Sometimes it could be really pathetic for the person that fills the survey out.
1:06.7	Many times somebody has said as they're filling out the survey that they're having an epiphany
1:15.3	or something that was blocked for a long time, feelings that were blocked are now kind
1:21.2	of flowing through them.
1:24.3	Either that or mucus.
1:25.6	I get those two important events and mucus confused, which makes for some really awkward
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