#341 80's Childhood Shitshow! - Dana Eagle

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

Imagine getting gay hate mail from your own family. Or finding a letter where your parents talk about you in a way that confirms your worst fears. How does Bipolar 2 compare to having something like cancer? Comedian and author (How To Be Depressed: A Guide) Dana Eagle opens up about being a lonely kid in the 80s whose parents couldn't relate to her perhaps b/c her dad was alcoholic or her mom was thriving in her corporate job. Or is it genetic? Paul and Dana talk about art, comedy, shame, money, puberty, homophobia, abandonment, moving and apes! Buy Dana's book How To Be Depressed: A Guide Visit her websites www.DanaEagle.comhttp://howtobedepressed.comhttps://www.facebook.com/DanaEagleComedy/https://twitter.com/DanaEagleTweetshttps://www.instagram.com/danaeagle/ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling. To try a free week go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental and fill out a questionnaire. Must be 18 This episode is sponsored by Bombas socks. For 20% off your first purchase go to www.Bombas.com/mental The podcast is doing live recordings Aug 2 & 3 in Oakland. For details and tickets go to www.eastbayexpress.com/mental To become a monthly donor (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul like the upcoming raffle for a free hotel at LAPodfest Oct 6-8) go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod To learn more about LAPodfest go to www.LAPodfest.com To help fund Paul's next trip to record international guests, especially in Ireland, go to https://www.gofundme.com/pauls-trip-to-ireland To make a one-time donations via Paypal go to www.mentalpod.com/donate Help the podcast by shopping with our podcast's Amazon link (it doesn't make your product any more expensive - even bookmark it!) 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 341 with my guest, Dana Eagle.
0:05.9	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:06.9	This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:12.1	For medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive
0:17.5	negative thinking.
0:18.8	The show's not meant to be substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:22.2	I'm not a therapist.
0:23.2	It's not a doctor's office.
0:24.8	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:27.2	The website for this show is a mental pod.com.
0:30.8	Metal pod is also the Twitter handle that you can follow me at.
0:36.4	We are coming to San Francisco to do some live tapings on Wednesday and Thursday of next
0:42.0	week.
0:43.0	That's August 2nd and 3rd.
0:44.0	We're going to do it in Oakland again at the New Parkway Theatre.
0:48.0	For tickets or information, I'll put a link under the show notes for this episode.
0:54.0	The link is eastbayexpress.com slash mental.
0:59.4	Eastbay Express is a newspaper that is helping to put this together.
1:06.2	If money is a problem, you can get free tickets to this by using the offer code guest when
1:13.4	you purchase the tickets.
1:16.4	That's GUET.
1:21.2	I think this memory came back to me like a couple of days ago.
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