#639 Drawn To The Dark Side - Michelle E
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Michelle E. is the daughter of Paul’s best childhood friend. Michelle opens up about her struggles with self-worth, her desire to feel seen and appreciated, her time working as an escort, and how she’s dealt with the fact that, as a child, she didn’t have contact with her father and was raised by a single mom with deep trust issues and possibly BPD.
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit toys. |
| 0:02.7 | Welcome to episode 639 with my guest, Michelle E. I'm Paul Gilmarton. |
| 0:08.4 | This is the metal illness. |
| 0:09.7 | Happy hour. |
| 0:10.7 | Please for honesty by everything. |
| 0:13.6 | Everything good around it. |
| 0:17.7 | And I just I just chased away 100 new listeners. |
| 0:23.5 | That's how I like to celebrate my Thursday. |
| 0:26.6 | To show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:34.2 | This is not a doctor's office. |
| 0:36.3 | This is a place for a nut job to run as mouth. |
| 0:39.9 | Let's dive into some surveys. |
| 0:41.2 | I actually wanted to share something. |
| 0:44.6 | You know, we talk on the podcast a lot about having to cut contact with people in our |
| 0:50.9 | lives that are unhealthy for us. |
| 0:54.2 | And a lot of time, especially if it's a parent or a family member, it's a really difficult |
| 1:01.5 | decision because there are things about that relationship that are good and that memories |
| 1:08.3 | that we love. |
| 1:11.1 | And having cut contact with my mom years ago, sometimes a memory will come up of a moment |
| 1:19.0 | where I felt really loved and seen by her. |
| 1:21.9 | And it's really painful because, well, I don't have to say why I think it's probably |
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