#342 When Your Trauma Informs Your Turn Ons

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Why do some people enjoy physical pain or become aroused by it? For Kal, the discovery came with a lot of complications; he was a young boy and it was at the hands of a powerful and sadistic pedophile Rabbi (Heshy Brier) who is now a fugitive living in Israel. Kal shares about his years of self-destruction and bottoming out before eventually getting sober and starting the process of healing and advocating for other survivors. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online therapy. To try a week for free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18. This episode is sponsored by BlueApron. To get your first 3 meals free with FREE delivery, go to www.BlueApron.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 342 with my guest, Cal Holger.
0:05.9	I'm Paul Gilmartner, this is the Metal Onus Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all
0:09.9	the battles in our heads.
0:11.8	From medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:17.0	compulsive negative thinking, this shows not meant to be a substitute for professional
0:21.9	mental counseling.
0:22.9	I'm not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office.
0:25.5	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:28.8	The website for this show is metalpod.com.
0:32.8	Metal pod is also the Twitter handle that you can follow me at.
0:37.6	If I seem a little bit out of it tonight, it's about two in the morning, my time on Wednesday
0:45.2	and recording the show early.
0:47.4	Normally I record it late Thursday night, Pacific time, and then post it just after midnight
0:55.2	or one o'clock in the morning, on Friday morning, Pacific time.
0:58.9	But I'm going to be in San Francisco tomorrow for two days, going to do some live podcasts.
1:07.0	I fly out tomorrow and I've juggling about 900 things right now.
1:14.7	The divorce paper work is kind of, we're still in the midst of that, separating stuff
1:20.8	financially.
1:21.8	I'm getting kicked out of my apartment, looking for a new place to live.
1:28.7	It's all quality problems.
1:34.1	I'm very grateful to have the life that I do.
1:38.8	I think the perfectionist in me wants to do everything perfectly and I'm exhausted.
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