#352 Caitlin Doughty: Death, OCD & Being a Mortician

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

The mortician, TED Talk speaker and author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, talks about her childhood OCD and fascination with death as a result of witnessing a tragedy, how she'd like to see the American funeral industry change and how death is viewed/embraced around the world via a read excerpt from her new book From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World To Find The Good Death. Follow Caitlin on Instagram @TheGoodDeath Follow Caitlin on Twitter @TheGoodDeath Check out her website www.CaitlinDoughty.com Buy her new book From Here to Etnernity: Traveling the World To Find The Good Death This ep is sponsored by BetterHelp online therapy. To try a week of counseling for free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18 This ep is sponsored by Hello Fresh meal kit delivery service. For $30 off your first week of deliveries go to www.HelloFresh.com and use offer code MENTAL30 This ep is sponsored by ZipRecruiter. To post jobs for free go to www.ZipRecruiter.com/mental If you live in the Twin Cities come see a live taping of the podcast in the afternoon and a comedy show that night at Sisyphus Brewery (with Paul as the emcee) Sat Oct 14th. Click here for tix or info. To become a monthly donor (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod 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 Follow Paul on Twitter @mentalpod 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 352 with my guest, Caitlin Doty, who is a more
0:07.4	Titian and a best-selling author. My name is Paul Gilmarton. This is the
0:11.2	metal illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our
0:15.3	heads, for medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction,
0:20.8	to everyday compulsive negative thinking. This shows not meant to be a
0:24.4	substitute for professional metal counseling. I'm not a therapist, it's not a
0:28.1	doctor's office. It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck. The website for
0:32.5	this show is mentalpod.com. Go there, check it out, fill out an anonymous
0:39.1	survey. Maybe we'll read your survey on the show. Join the forum. There's
0:43.5	lots of like-minded people in the forum. There's all kinds of things you can do
0:49.1	on the website. There's a tilt to world on the website. Don't ask me how.
0:55.1	Don't ask me how we got it there. LA PodFest was amazing this last weekend. I had so
1:02.1	much fun. There is nothing like that community of people that listen to
1:09.0	podcasts. It's unlike any other, you know, doing stand-up for years and being on
1:16.5	TV and all that kind of stuff. I would meet people that followed my work, but
1:21.8	nothing really compares to people that listen to you when you podcast.
1:30.3	Because there's maybe it's the subject matter. Maybe it's the nature of having
1:36.3	somebody in your ears that feels so intimate. But it's just always, it always
1:42.9	feels so good. And speaking of that, I'm going to be in Minneapolis
1:48.1	tomorrow Saturday. What would that be? October 14th at Cicifist Brewing. We're
1:56.0	going to be recording the podcast live in the afternoon there. And then I'm
2:00.2	going to be doing my crazy satirical political character in their
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