#345 Food, Porn, Shame, Vulnerability & Losing a Sibling - Matt Shepherd

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Paul's support group friend shares about recovery and battles with binge-eating, shame, compulsive exercise, not knowing what he looks like, porn addiction, love addiction, fear of leaving relationships, feeling like he "is enough", growing up in a family where one sibling takes up all the parents' attention and energy, surviving the suicide of his brother and the huge impact learning to be vulnerable has had on his healing and life in general. Find out more about Matt at: Youtube: www.youtube.com/meetmattshepherd Instagram: www.instagram.com/meetmattshep Twitter: www.twitter.com/meetmattshep website: www.meetmattshep.com 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 To become a monthly donor (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Catch the podcast live at LAPodfest Oct 6-8. To learn more go to www.LAPodfest.com 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!) To help fund Paul's next trip to record international guests, especially in Ireland, go to https://www.gofundme.com/pauls-trip-to-ireland 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 345 with my guest Matt Shepherd, Paul Gilmarten.
0:07.0	This is the metal illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads,
0:11.8	from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:17.1	compulsive negative thinking.
0:18.8	This shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:22.8	I'm not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't
0:27.3	suck.
0:28.3	I'm not a doctor, but I am a hypochantriac, and that has to count for something.
0:34.2	Welcome to anybody who has found us through iTunes.
0:38.2	We are featured in their new in noteworthy section this week, so very excited about that.
0:47.7	I want to, as I've shared with a lot of you guys that listen every week, I'm in the process
0:56.2	of moving, and I, so I went to get the keys to the new apartment today, and it's a really
1:08.2	tiny apartment, I'm moving into it, 700 square feet, and I didn't know if the headboard
1:16.0	for my bed is going to fit in there.
1:20.2	I grabbed a measuring tape, measured my headboard, headed over to get the keys to the new apartment,
1:28.7	and I was like, oh, I got to swing by the house and let Ivy out, and my ex-wife likes
1:36.2	to grow vegetables, and she always tells me, you know, take whatever you want.
1:41.4	So there were some great green beans and zucchinis, and big fucking yellow zucchinis, and
1:49.7	there was a squash, I don't know, I can just, big vegetable.
1:54.0	And squash?
1:56.0	Yeah, a squash.
1:58.0	I did fucking cooking show.
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