#348 Manhattan Party Girl - Fielding Edlow

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Raised in financial privilege but emotional poverty, the actor/writer/standup reflects on her "don't give a fuck" eating disorder, drug and alcohol years trying to stuff the real feelings of abandonment, not being good enough, anxiety, anger and feeling invisible especially in comparison to her golden-child brother. She gets honest about the "self-centered demon inside me" that drove her actions until sobering up almost 20 years ago and learning to deal with her insecurities, fears and anger by connecting to trusted people in support groups and trying to be of service. Check out her great web series www.BitterHomesandGardens.com and her website www.FieldingEdlow.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 This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter. To post job ads for FREE go to www.ZipRecruiter.com/mental To take the survey Paul mentioned on the podcast (to help out a graduate student doing a thesis on how this podcast helps people) click here. To become a monthly donor (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod For tix or info for the live podcast appearance Oct 14 in Minneapolis at Sisyphus Brewery click here Catch the podcast live at LAPodfest Oct 6-8. To learn more go to www.LAPodfest.com If you live in the Twin Cities come see a live taping of the podcast in the afternoon and a comedy show that night (with Paul as the emcee) Sat Oct 14th. More details to follow. 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 348 with my guest, Fielding Edlow.
0:05.7	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:06.8	This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.
0:08.6	A place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:11.6	From medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday,
0:16.4	compulsive negative thinking.
0:18.0	The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:22.0	I'm not a therapist.
0:23.3	It's not a doctor's office.
0:24.6	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:27.3	The website for this show is a mental pod.com.
0:30.5	Metal pod is also the Twitter handle and the Instagram handle.
0:37.3	Before I forget, I mentioned on the last week's episode that there's a listener named Sam
0:43.3	who was doing his PhD dissertation on how this podcast helps people and he could use some
0:50.4	more people filling out a survey.
0:52.4	I'm going to put that survey link under the show notes on our website for this episode.
0:58.2	If you could take it, that would help greatly.
1:00.7	It only takes about five or ten minutes.
1:02.8	Totally anonymous.
1:04.9	I think both of us would be grateful to you.
1:09.3	Want to remind you, LA Pod Fest is October 6th through 8th.
1:12.6	We're going to be there doing a live show.
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