#302 Behind The Good Girl Mask

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Only hugged once in her life by her mother, 25 year-old Yohana is the daughter of conservative East African war refugees from Ethiopia & Eritrea. All her life she has buried her rage by wearing the "good girl" mask to try to placate her narcissistic mother and having to be someone else to survive as a kid growing up in Oakland where there were some fixed ideas of what makes someone an "authentic African-American". She shares about living with a learning disability, having physically disabled siblings(and a mother who is ashamed of them) and a passive father. She talks about her battles with body shame, emotional eating, anxiety and depression. This episode is sponsored by MadisonReed. For 10% off your first hair color kit (and free shipping) go to www.Madison-Reed.com and use offer code HAPPY Follow Yohana on Twitter @Yohnkid For info and tickets to the upcoming live MIHH event at the In This Together Festival in Los Angeles go to www.ITTFest.com It's Sunday Nov 13th and starts at 4pm. Paul will be interviewing former NBA player and mental health advocate Royce White. 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 302 with my guest, Johanna.
0:05.9	Paul Gilmartin is the metal illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles
0:10.1	in our heads, from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction.
0:15.1	It's a little trouble getting that word out to every day compulsive negative thinking.
0:20.3	The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:25.0	I'm a bonafide jackass.
0:27.6	And I think that this more is a waiting room, not the doctor's office, if the waiting room
0:32.6	was filled with a sad jackass.
0:35.1	How could you be filled with wanters?
0:38.2	I'm already wanting to rewind, edit, delete, moving forward.
0:44.5	The website for this show is mentalpod.com.
0:49.2	Some of you have been confused about how to access the Amazon portal.
0:54.5	If you're going to shop at Amazon and have them give us a little bit of money, go to
0:59.2	our homepage, you'll see a little Amazon logo in the upper right hand corner.
1:04.4	Click on that and it takes you to our little bookstore, which is Amazon Books that we
1:12.4	recommend, books that either guests have written or that we like.
1:18.3	And at the very top left of that is another Amazon logo.
1:23.7	And if you just want to shop in general at Amazon, click on that and that will take
1:29.8	you to it's not very obvious on the thing because the logo is so small, but I don't
1:39.0	know how to change it.
1:40.0	So go fuck yourself.
1:41.8	That seems like I lashed out you on this.
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