#765 Ali Siddiq - Grief, Incarceration & Friendship
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Ali Siddiq is a comedian and writer who shares his stories of abuse, incarceration, grief, and the importance of friendship. Find all of his powerful stand-up specials, including the newly released standup special Rugged (on YouTube).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 765 with my guest, Ali Sadiq. If you're new to the podcast, welcome. I hope you find this |
| 0:07.2 | podcast to be a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed |
| 0:13.6 | conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:19.6 | This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:23.6 | I am not a therapist. |
| 0:25.8 | I like to say I'm a jackass that used to tell dick jokes professionally. |
| 0:31.4 | I suppose I still do. |
| 0:33.3 | I squeeze in the occasional dick joke here on the pod. |
| 0:39.8 | Let's jump into some surveys. |
| 0:41.8 | This is from the struggle in a sentence survey, and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself Chrissy. |
| 0:47.7 | And she deals with bipolar 2, anxiety, OCD, and an eating disorder. |
| 0:54.7 | And a snapshot from her life, she writes, |
| 0:56.7 | one thing goes wrong and the whole world is imploding. |
| 1:00.4 | I can't breathe. |
| 1:01.6 | I can't think straight. |
| 1:03.1 | I feel like dying. |
| 1:04.5 | What the fuck is going on? |
| 1:06.1 | I don't understand why, why, why? |
| 1:09.5 | I want to cut so bad. please help me oh Chrissy I am so sorry that you are |
| 1:17.4 | feeling that way I don't know how often you feel that way but that is that is a lot that is a. And one of the ways that I manage all my crazy is I just try to ask |
| 1:34.8 | myself, what is the tool, if any, I can bring it to this situation, whether it's picking up |
| 1:41.4 | the phone or just sometimes go stand out in the backyard |
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