#781 Losing A Parent - Sarah Haufrect Returns
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Haufrect is a returning guest and long-time listener who shares her experience with loss, grief, and the parent-child relationship. She opens up about processing her mother’s borderline personality disorder (BPD) after her death and the transformative moments spent with her father while he was dying. Look for her podcast, Brain Stories, which shares personal stories about mental health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 781 with my return guest, Sarah Howfret. Happy New Year. My name is Paul Gilmartin, |
| 0:08.0 | and this is the mental illness happy hour, our place for honesty about all the battles in our heads |
| 0:14.9 | from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:23.0 | This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:28.4 | It's not a doctor's office. |
| 0:30.1 | It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck. |
| 0:33.7 | I remember being in the psychiatrist's office before you were able to do Zoom appointments. |
| 0:41.9 | And I just remember thinking, I fucking hate the waiting rooms for therapy and psychiatrist appointments. |
| 0:50.4 | Because all of us just look at our shoes. |
| 0:55.4 | Nobody says hi. |
| 0:56.5 | It's so much different. |
| 1:03.9 | Although I suppose in regular doctor offices, there's occasionally there's a little bit of chat, |
| 1:05.0 | but I don't know. |
| 1:10.2 | I don't think I ever had a conversation with anybody in a waiting room for a therapist or a psychiatrist. |
| 1:11.4 | And anyway, that is one of the reasons I say that in the podcast is I wanted this to be a place |
| 1:19.8 | where we're not ashamed, where we do figuratively look each other in the eye and say, |
| 1:27.2 | yeah, I'm fucked up. How about you? How'd he do? |
| 1:32.8 | I hope you survive the holidays. Obviously, if you're listening, you have. I don't know. I'm good. |
| 1:43.1 | Christina's good. Gracie's good. |
| 1:44.6 | Pablo's good. |
| 1:45.9 | My life is good no matter what my head tells me. |
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