#315 Jenny R - Raised in Wealth, Sadness & Anxiety

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

The anxious only child of a drunk/rager mom and a passive dad shares about her family's combination of material wealth and emotional ignorance/poverty. She talks about her fear of "just being" instead of always "doing", including triathlons & rock climbing, her ongoing battles with disordered eating -especially binging- , her all-or-nothing thinking and struggles with intimacy while being married and having a family. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online therapy. To learn more (and get your first week free) go to www.betterhelp.com/mental This episode is sponsored by MadisonReed. For 10% your first hair color kit plus free shipping go to www.Madison-Reed.com and use offer code HAPPY This episode is sponsored by Movement Watches. Get 15% off today (with free shipping and free returns) by going to www.MVMTWatches.com/mental This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter. To post jobs for free go to www.ZipRecruiter.com/first Support the podcast by becoming a monthly donor (for as little as $1/month and get rewards from Paul) at Patreon. www.patreon.com/mentalpod For info on Paul's upcoming live podcast shows in the Bay Area Feb 22 & Feb 23 go to www.eastbayexpress.com/mental 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 315 with my guest Jenny R. Today's episode is sponsored by Madison
0:07.6	Reed. Madison Reed offers salon quality hair coloring results that you can achieve
0:12.5	right from your home. We gave listener Cat Freakit and she loved it and it is in her words
0:20.1	made her now a fan of the podcast and Madison Reed. So if you're looking for a fresh take
0:25.2	on at home hair color, find your perfect shade. Madison dash Reed dot com get 10% off
0:31.1	plus free shipping on your first color kit using promo code happy. That's Madison dash
0:36.5	Reed dot com and promo code happy. I'm Paul Gilmarten. This is the metal illness happy
0:42.6	hour. A place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:48.3	past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. This shows not
0:53.7	meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling. I am not a therapist. I'm
0:59.0	barely a human being. This is not a doctor's office. This is more like a waiting room. That
1:04.1	does not suck. The website for this show is mental pod dot com. Metal pod is also the
1:09.7	Twitter handle you can follow us at. Hey people in Oakland, we are coming to do two live shows
1:16.3	in the Bay area on February 22nd and 23rd. So for more information and I think that's
1:24.5	a those are weekdays. I know I can't remember if it's Tuesday, Wednesday or Wednesday,
1:29.2	Thursday, but February 22 and 23 and for more information go to east bay express dot com
1:37.0	slash mental. I'll put the link on our website for this episode.
1:45.5	So I've been I told you guys that we have a new sponsor for online therapy better help dot com.
1:55.4	And I have been using one of their therapists for a couple of months now and really really
2:02.9	like her and some of the stuff that we have been dealing with lately. I kind of thought that
2:11.4	I wouldn't say that I was over it, but she's she's helping me see my thought patterns and how
2:21.9	black and white my thinking can be when I project into the future. How like I exaggerate things in my head.
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