#589 Schizoaffective Disorder - Jen W

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Paul’s support group friend, Jen W, opens up about living with schizoaffective disorder and her journey to becoming a nurse. She also delves into her experience as the daughter of a Thai immigrant and her adventures while working in Thailand.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 589 with my guest, Jen W. I'm Paul Gilmarten. This is the metal illness
0:08.3	happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:14.8	past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. This show's not meant
0:21.3	to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. I'm not a therapist. I'm a jackass that
0:26.6	used to cook chicken on basic cable and tour around the country telling dick jokes. And speaking
0:32.9	to tour around the country, we're doing a live recording of the podcast on Friday, May 20th in
0:38.4	Minneapolis. I believe the showtime is 8 o'clock. I'll put a link to ticket information
0:46.8	in the show notes for this episode, but you can also look up a Cicifis and good luck spelling that
0:53.6	Cicifis brewery in Minneapolis, which is where the recording is going to take place.
0:59.8	One of my support groups last night, we have this, I don't know what you call tradition in this
1:09.5	support group. It's a small group of friends who've known each other for a long time. And one of
1:14.4	the things we'll do every other week is somebody can pick a theme for the shares. And somebody suggested
1:26.1	talking about gratitude and perfectionism. And I'd never put the two of them together before
1:31.5	in my brain until this friend suggested it. And I thought, wow, they really are connected because
1:37.2	when I'm in the mode of deathly afraid of making mistakes, feeling like, you know, some catastrophe is
1:47.2	going to happen if I don't do this right here. Somebody's going to not love me or they're going to
1:51.5	think less of me or I'm going to fail. And it will have been a waste of time. I'm completely out of
1:58.9	the present moment because I'm so wrapped up in the future that I can't appreciate anything that's
2:06.6	going on around me. And I think it's really, really hard to feel any kind of gratitude if our
2:13.5	feet aren't rooted in the present moment. I cannot feel the good things in my life. And unless I'm
2:20.9	in a place of relative stillness. And that mean voice in my head is at least temporarily quieting
2:31.0	down. But I don't know. What are you guys have ever made a connection between those two? And
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