#354 Surviving Suicide - Kelechi Ubozoh

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

The 32 year-old poet, mental health advocate and daughter of a Nigerian immigrant father and Brooklyn mother opens up to Paul about her emotional and mental turnaround after years of feeling suicidal and several times attempting it. She details the ways her depression, disconnection and fear of taking off her "mask" as the perfect, popular girl played in leading her to believe it was a good idea. She and Paul discuss possible ways loved ones can reach out to someone who is talking about suicide as well as how the person who is in pain can find help and potentially hope. Her relationship with her mother, who is a doctor, is a great example of how someone in the helping profession can still learn ways to communicate with and love someone who is hurting. Follow Kelechi athttps://kelechiubozoh.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/kubozoh Check out the documentary she appears in called The S Word The book about covert incest that Paul mentioned is called Silently Seduced. 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 HelloFresh meal kit delivery service. For $30 off your first week of meals go to www.HelloFresh and use promo code MENTAL 30 This ep is sponsored by Quip Electric Toothbrush. To get your first refill pack free with the purchase of a toothbrush go to www.GetQuip.com/mental 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 and Instagram @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 354 with my guest, Kaleci Ubozo.
0:07.0	My name is Paul Gilmarton.
0:08.4	This is the metal illness.
0:09.6	Happy hour.
0:10.6	It's a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:15.8	past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:21.5	The show is part listener confession and part interview with the guest.
0:31.5	This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:36.0	I'm not a therapist.
0:37.1	It's not a doctor's office.
0:38.1	It's more like a waiting room.
0:41.1	That's really fucked up.
0:44.1	The website for this show is mentalpod.com and metalpod is also the Twitter and
0:51.2	Instagram handle that you can follow me at.
0:56.6	The surveys, you know, slash listener confessions that are filled out anonymously by listeners.
1:03.8	The ones that I'm going to read after the interview with Kaleci are pretty dark, emotionally,
1:11.4	mentally and sexually.
1:13.6	I figured, you know, if somebody's going to tune in to tune in, what am I?
1:20.8	I'm 100 years old.
1:22.4	If somebody's going to listen to an episode on this topic, then maybe this would be a good
1:29.3	episode to read some of the darker surveys.
1:33.6	Because a lot of times I hold back stuff because I don't want people to get, I don't want
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