#769 Darkest Listener Confessions 2

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Our second installment of the darkest surveys filled out anonymously by listeners.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 769.
0:03.0	Yeah, we are doing another pile of the heaviest surveys that people fill out.
0:10.2	They're mostly the shame and secret surveys for those of you that are regular listeners.
0:17.1	My name's Paul.
0:18.7	How are you?
0:20.4	What do you like to go by?
0:23.8	Fuckface.
0:27.2	It seems like a weird name to enjoy being called.
0:33.9	These, this pile of surveys that, uh, that I have, and it is a pile. I can't imagine.
0:39.2	I'm going to get through all of these.
0:41.2	Um, over the course of reading the surveys that, that people fill out, I'll come across one.
0:49.8	I don't know, maybe every three, four weeks where I'm just like, oh, I don't know if I would say I don't feel like reading that one in the podcast or maybe it just, I feel like it.
1:09.8	I wouldn't say I don't want to bum people out, but I don't know.
1:13.1	There's just something inside of me that feels like maybe later.
1:18.0	Maybe I'll read it later.
1:22.8	I wasn't sure whether or not to do another episode of these.
1:27.2	I did one back in, I don't know, maybe two years ago.
1:32.3	And people seem to like it.
1:34.7	People, or at least people that I have contact with.
1:38.6	And so I ran it by the folks in the Sunday Zoom group.
1:43.7	And I said, I'm thinking of doing another one because the pile is getting quite large.
1:49.7	And they pretty much do a person, said, yeah, do it.
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