312: What if you believed your love could cure him?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Finally finding love and marriage after feeling unworthy of romance, a woman develops symptoms of a mysterious and debilitating illness, but in the roller coaster of recovery, her husband’s mental illness creates a new level of chaos.
Today’s episode featured Marabai Rose. To find out more about Marabai, you can find her on Instagram @marabai.rose, and on her website marabairose.com. There you can find links to her podcast, Badass: Tales of Resilience @badass_tales_of_resilience, which showcases authentic conversations about trauma and resilience. You can also find links to her memoir, Holding Hope: One family’s Odyssey Through Lyme Disease and Psychosis, which dives deeper into many aspects of the story you heard today and more. If you'd like to reach out to her, you can email at [email protected] or on Facebook at facebook.com/marabai
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: medical trauma, domestic violence, severe mental illness, psychosis, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. I was feeling as if I were underwater and everything under water is like slow and dark and heavy. |
| 0:28.0 | I couldn't find the right words to convey. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm under the water. I need somebody toledyne. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:55.0 | Episode 312. What if you believed your love could cure him? |
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