#565 - Losing a Child - Anne Moss Rogers
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Author and speaker Anne Moss Rogers shares the moving story of trying to save, and ultimately losing, her son. She gives personal and professional insights on addiction, mental illness, suicide and grief and talks about the power of her support group.
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit toys. |
| 0:02.6 | Welcome to episode 565 with my guest Ann Moss Rogers. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Paul Gilmart and this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour. |
| 0:10.4 | It's a place for honesty about all the bullshit rattling around in our heads for medically |
| 0:16.7 | diagnosed conditions, past traumas and sexual dysfunction that everyday compulsive negative |
| 0:22.6 | thinking. |
| 0:23.6 | The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:29.4 | The website for this show is metalpod.com. |
| 0:32.2 | It's also the social media handle. |
| 0:34.2 | You can follow us at. |
| 0:36.2 | I was in one of my support groups this week and two topics came up unrelated seemingly |
| 0:45.8 | to each other. |
| 0:46.8 | One topic was perfectionism and the other topic and another meeting was leading a double |
| 0:51.8 | life. |
| 0:52.8 | And as I was thinking about both of these things, I realized they really are connected. |
| 0:59.4 | And in a certain way, because the perfectionism, I believe, robsess of finding out who we |
| 1:11.9 | authentically are. |
| 1:14.2 | Perfectionism, there's nothing perfectionism can't destroy. |
| 1:18.8 | I've a friend was talking about getting a promotion and just being filled with anxiety |
| 1:24.5 | and fear of being called a fraud, it was like, it is amazing how perfectionism can take |
| 1:32.1 | such great opportunities in our lives and turn it into dread and horror. |
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