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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#751 Best Of: Counseling Predators - Dr David Hirohama

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

This “Best Of” episode originally aired in 2013 and was voted a listener favorite. David Hiroshima is a 3rd generation Japanese-American psychologist. He shares his experience and observations counseling sexual predators (rapists and child molesters) at Coalinga, a lockdown mental hospital in central California and how he used Buddhism to help him cope.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 751, a best of episode.

0:04.3

It's with David Hero Hamad, originally aired in 2013, and I'm going to keep things brief.

0:11.1

I am just about to go out the door to go camping.

0:16.4

Looking forward to it.

0:17.7

Might do a little bit of whitewater.

0:19.6

One, that might have reservations to go on a whitewater excursion for three hours.

0:27.8

Let's hope I don't hit a tree and drown.

0:32.8

Here's that episode, and I will see you next week.

0:41.2

Every human being has weird thoughts going through their head.

0:45.1

Oh God, it's so embarrassing.

0:46.6

I'm afraid I'll never get another job again.

0:48.1

I will die and will have not been special.

0:50.2

My brain has the gift of seeing the terrible.

0:52.6

A million pound tourniquet being turned against my chest that was constant.

0:57.2

Then I started sabotaging my own career.

1:00.1

Wanting to die.

1:01.2

To stop him from feeling any joy.

1:04.1

That is very uncomfortable in my own body.

1:07.6

I ended up becoming a male prostitute.

1:09.9

And what I became was an animal. They took away my shoelaces. I became up becoming a male prostitute. And what I became was an animal.

1:11.6

They took away my shoelaces.

1:12.6

I became chaos.

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