#755 When The Trauma Dam Breaks - Stevie G

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Listener (and MIHH Zoom hangout member) Stevie G opens up about her repressed childhood trauma memories and needing outpatient psychiatric care, learning new coping skills and walking thru the grief of the passing of her best friend and most recently, her sister.

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0:54.9	Welcome to episode 755 with my guest, StevieG.
0:59.4	We recorded this episode a couple of hours ago.
1:03.1	Normally there is anywhere from, I don't know, a month to sometimes over a a year between when we record episodes and when they air,
1:14.9	because I usually have a big backlog of unreleased episodes.
1:20.8	But I decided I wanted to release this one today just because, I don't know i recorded stevie and she's um no she's just she's just
1:33.8	i don't know i don't have words you'll you'll find out when you hear the episode
1:43.2	stevie's listening right now.
1:45.3	I mean, like, what, is it a bad thing?
1:49.4	She's a very special person, very special person.
1:53.3	And as I say in the interview, she's one of our Zoom weekly hangout members and has been a big part of that for multiple months now.
2:08.5	Anyway, I'm going to apologize in advance. I'm running on about two hours of sleep and it feels like somebody kicked me in the
2:18.7	head. My head feels like a gigantic marshmallow. Just having trouble putting thoughts together.
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