#642 Institutionalized As A Teenager - Emi Nietfeld
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Emi Nietfeld (@EmiNietfeld) is a writer and the author of the book Acceptance, a memoir of her journey through foster care, homelessness, and, eventually, to Harvard. She opens up about a childhood where she was often neglected and heavily medicated. She talks about her several stays in psychiatric wards and how she’s continuing to process her troubled childhood.
More about Emi
Twitter: @eminietfeld
Instagram: @eminietfeld
Facebook: @CheezIts
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| 0:00.0 | Miss Fit toys. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to episode 642 with my guest, Emmy Neat Fell down Paul Gilmarton. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the Metal Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty. |
| 0:10.0 | But all this stuff in our heads were medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas and sexual |
| 0:17.0 | dysfunction to everyday, I don't know, I pronounced to that way, to everyday compulsive |
| 0:23.1 | negative thinking this shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, |
| 0:28.9 | probably pretty obvious, to 99.9% of you, but on the out-chance that there's somebody |
| 0:34.6 | who is like, I think, I think this guy is an expert. |
| 0:38.9 | I am not an expert, but I do have a lot of experience with all the stuff that we talk about. |
| 0:46.2 | So, with that said, welcome. |
| 0:50.6 | Kick your shoes off. |
| 0:52.2 | Find a beanbag chair to your liking and enjoy the black light. |
| 1:01.6 | This episode with Emmy, this interview, I mean, it was intense the interview from last week |
| 1:09.4 | with Christine Kimmel, and I think if you enjoy that one, you're going to enjoy this |
| 1:15.2 | one as well, because this one is another childhood roller coaster. |
| 1:20.4 | I don't know, I'm just, I'm so fascinated by people's ability to survive, as they say, |
| 1:28.4 | during the March madness, basketball tournament, survive in advance. |
| 1:33.7 | It's amazing to shit the children can endure, but it seems like it's like a trumpet is like |
| 1:44.8 | a relative that you think was out of your life, and then it just kind of knocks on your |
| 1:48.9 | door in your 20s or your 30s. |
| 1:51.3 | It was like, oh, did you think we were done? |
| 1:54.9 | I'm still in your life. |
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