#299 College Freshman Meltdown: Jen Curran's story

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

The writer/improviser shares about the mental/emotional breakdown her freshman year of college at NYU that left her living in her car and squatting in empty buildings in New York City. She looks back on her childhood and the familial love that was so often conditional, based on her weight and appearance. She opens up about the body shaming women in her family unconsciously modeled for her, her relationship with food, difficulty setting boundaries with toxic people and finding out what she really wants instead of living to meet other people's expectations of her. This episode is sponsored by Young Health's Probimune. For your first bottle free (plus $6.75 shipping) go to www.probimune.com and use offer code MENTAL This episode is sponsored by Casper mattresses. Go to www.casper.com/mental This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter.com Listeners can post jobs for free by going to www.ziprecruiter.com/first 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 299 with my guest Jen Curran.
0:06.1	Paul Gilmarten, this is the medal-knownest happy hour.
0:08.7	A place for honesty about all the battles in our heads, from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:13.3	past traumas and sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:17.8	This shows not meant to be a substitute for professional medal counseling.
0:21.0	I'm not a therapist, I'm a jackass.
0:24.6	And it's not a doctor's office.
0:26.6	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:29.3	The website for the show is mentalpod.com.
0:32.0	Metalpod is also the Twitter handle you can follow me at.
0:36.1	As I've said many times on this podcast, I like to avoid politics because I don't want
0:40.8	this show to be divisive.
0:42.8	But if you've not been living in a cave the last 10 days, you know that sexual assault
0:50.1	has become a really important topic of discussion.
0:56.8	I'd be preface this by saying I don't favor any one political candidate.
1:01.7	99% of political candidates discussed me.
1:06.4	So I don't have a dog in this fight.
1:11.0	If you are a huge fan of Donald Trump, a shop that you also enjoy this podcast, b, you
1:20.6	might want to fast forward through the next minute.
1:25.3	I hope you don't so you can hear what I have to say, my thoughts on the things that he
1:31.7	would have recorded saying.
1:35.1	It's difficult for me to talk about this and not feel not being my head because I'm on
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