#767 Self-Harm - Matthew Broussard

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Broussard is a comedian (Hyperbolic) who shares his struggles with mental health and opens up, for the first time, about his experience with self-harm.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.uk slash wondery.
0:11.5	Welcome to episode 767 with my guest, Matthew Broussard. If you're new, welcome.
0:20.5	I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all the battles in
0:24.2	our heads from medically diet. Now, why did I say our heads? Because I'm talking to you directly.
0:30.7	Why would I say that? Why wouldn't I say your head? We're off to a bad start. I'm in my head already.
0:39.9	Let's take a deep breath and reset.
0:49.4	I've been having kind of a stressful way. It doesn't take much to stress me out. And so we're not going to have any surveys on this episode. Normally, this is the week where the bulk of the surveys are on the regular
0:56.3	episode as opposed to Patreon. But I had a friend kind of unexpectedly staying with me. He was just
1:09.5	released from the psych ward. And so he's been staying with me. He was just released from the psych ward and so he's been staying with me for a couple
1:15.8	of days and my girlfriend is moving in Saturday morning and it's it's not it's not that I'm
1:26.6	stressed out.
1:30.4	I just feel spread thin.
1:50.7	And one of the things that I've worked on in the last few years is to recognize when my bandwidth is getting thin, small, whatever you want to call it, is to not be the people pleaser and to make sure I don't drain my battery. So, no surveys this week, but there's a part of me that just feels like,
1:56.5	oh, you're letting people down, you're lazy, you're a shitty podcaster. Other podcasters fight through it. They do the stuff that they don't want to do. Doesn't matter how tired they are. They function on less sleep. They have kids. They might even have a nine to five job. You're pathetic. Yeah.
2:19.4	That's mean DJ voice.
2:22.6	Coming at me from the Quad Cities.
2:28.5	I was watching something on TV the other day.
2:30.8	Does that sound like an old person?
2:32.6	I was watching the television. And LeBron James, who I'm sure you all know,
2:38.6	was saying that he believes that he's the greatest basketball player in the history of the game.
2:44.9	Whether that's true or not, the thought occurred to me, and I don't believe it's true. I think
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