#754 Anorexia and OCD - Andrea Jones-Rooy

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Andrea Jones-Rooy is a data scientist, speaker, and stand-up comedian. They join Paul to share their struggles with anorexia and OCD, and how they have managed them over the years.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 754 with my guest, Andrea Jones-Roy. If you are new to the podcast, welcome.
0:08.8	I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all this shit, ping pong and around our skulls.
0:16.6	Word of warning, I am not a therapist. And this shows now meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:24.7	And sometimes the surveys, probably more than the interviews, can get a little dark, a little
0:30.6	heavy, sometimes a little bit graphic.
0:32.9	And if you do enjoy the surveys, there are, every other week there are bonus surveys for
0:39.3	Patreon folks at the $5 and above monthly donation level and all kinds of Patreon rewards
0:48.8	at different tiers.
0:50.8	And I say all of that because we could definitely need,
0:55.1	uh,
0:55.2	use some support over on Patreon.
0:58.2	Um,
0:59.0	yeah,
0:59.7	the podcasting space is just getting more and more competitive every day.
1:03.7	Six million new podcasts launch.
1:08.4	Uh,
1:09.1	I think now officially every famous person pretty much has their own podcast. Maybe with the
1:18.9	exception of the Queen of England. Oh, she's dead. God damn it, she will never have a podcast now.
1:27.8	That is so sad.
1:30.3	How stiff would her podcast have been?
1:34.6	Some would say no stiffer than mine.
1:38.2	There is a joke there, and I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to reach for it.
	...

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