#321 Herpes from Date-Rape: Laura J

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

Laura J. shares about contracting herpes by being date-raped and how she has navigated managing it logistically, sexually and emotionally with partners, including her husband. She was raised in an emotionally cold home by a psychiatrist father and image-obsessed mother. Her mother's response when Laura would say "I love you" has only ever been "thank you". Laura shares about having Bipolar 2, codependency, fear of intimacy, occasional paranoia, an eating disorder (compulsive eating), multiple stays in psych hospitals, an abortion and always being in the shadow of her high-maintenance and unstable sister. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling. To get your first week free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18 or over. This episode is sponsored by Young Health's probiotic Probimune. To get your first bottle free (plus $6.75 shipping) go to www.probimune.com and use offer code MENTAL This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter. To post jobs for free go 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 321 with my guest Laura J. I'm Paul Gilmarton. This is the Metal
0:07.7	illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:12.0	For medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:16.7	compulsive negative thinking. The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional
0:21.5	mental counseling. I am not a therapist, a standard doctor's office. More like a waiting
0:26.5	room that doesn't suck. The website for this show is mentalpod.com. Go there.
0:31.8	Please fill out a survey. We have surveys that you can fill out anonymously. We don't
0:36.7	even record the IP address of the person taking, filling out the survey. And maybe we'll
0:43.2	read your survey on the air. It helps us get to know each other better when you guys
0:50.2	fill these out and pour your hearts and souls into these amazing surveys that you've
0:56.1	been providing the show for years. I debated on whether or not to share this with you
1:08.2	guys because I'm afraid people are going to go, well, then I'm not donating anymore.
1:14.1	But I finally bought a new car. I hadn't had a new car in 10 years. The reason I wanted
1:22.5	to share it is when I drove it, I pictured everybody that has contributed to the podcast.
1:36.5	Because I mean, that is, I support myself doing the podcast. This is my full-time job. And
1:44.3	it was my dream starting in 2011, 2012 when I started doing the podcast to be able to
1:51.1	do this full-time and to support myself. And it just blows my mind that the kindness
2:02.0	of donors has enabled me to get a new car. And it's just, you know, you enabled me to
2:12.8	pay my rent, put food on my table. I should really put it on a plate, but I put it right
2:20.4	on the table. I take things literally. When I hear a saying, I fucking run with it. But
2:26.7	I just want to thank people who have supported the show, you know, even if it's something
2:34.1	as much as telling a friend about it, that brings more listeners, which means more downloads,
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