#291 Sarah Haufrect - My Mom Had BPD

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

Sarah shares about her mother's battles with Borderline Personality Disorder, her relationship with such a "beautifully disastrously complicated" woman, Sarah's own battles with bulimia, anxiety, and co-dependency and the role exercise has played in helping her moods. This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron. For your first 3 meals free (with free shipping) go to www.blueapron.com/mental Follow Sarah on Twitter @Smartypants_Inc www.twitter.com/smartypants_inc To read the Salon article she wrote about her mom go to http://www.salon.com/2016/02/28/i_loved_lived_with_and_lost_my_mother_to_borderline_personality_disorder/# The book Sarah mentioned reading is called Walking on Eggshells. Tickets are still available for LAPodfest. Go to www.lapodfest.com and use offercode HAPPY for $5 off. 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 291 with my guest Sarah Halfrick.
0:06.4	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:07.4	This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.
0:08.8	A place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:12.3	From medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:17.4	compulsive negative thinking.
0:19.4	The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:22.8	I'm not a therapist.
0:24.4	It's not a doctor's office.
0:26.6	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:29.4	Hopefully, the website for this show is mentalpod.com.
0:34.6	Go there, check it out.
0:35.6	MetalPod is also the Twitter handle you can follow me at.
0:39.4	Go check out our website.
0:42.2	Fill out our anonymous surveys and maybe we'll read yours on the air.
0:47.2	That's a big, big part of this show.
0:49.4	For those of you that might be new to the show, because I believe this episode this week
0:55.5	is being highlighted on iTunes homepage.
0:59.7	Thank you, Steve, over at iTunes for being such a good supporter of our podcast.
1:07.0	For those of you that are new, generally, an episode is me interviewing somebody for an
1:14.4	hour or so.
1:16.3	Then I read an hour or so of listener surveys and emails and stuff like that.
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