#786 Shame, BiPolar & Codependency - Lane Falcon
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Lane Falcon is a podcast listener who discusses one of her Mental Illness Happy Hour survey responses and opens up about her struggles with bipolar disorder, trauma, and codependency.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 786 with my guest Lane Falcon. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Paul. |
| 0:06.6 | Last name's Gilmartin. |
| 0:09.0 | Crazy. |
| 0:10.8 | It's my favorite drink. |
| 0:13.5 | If you're new to the podcast, this is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads, |
| 0:18.4 | from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, |
| 0:21.8 | and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:26.0 | And this show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:30.3 | I am not a therapist. |
| 0:35.1 | Half of this show is an interview with a guest, and the other half of the show is surveys that have been submitted anonymously online. |
| 0:45.4 | There's probably a dozen different ones people fill out. |
| 0:48.2 | You can fill them out at our website, metalpod.com. |
| 0:52.1 | And we don't even register the IP addresses of people that fill them out. |
| 0:57.1 | So you can share anything and everything without fear of, you know, it being tracked or any of that other stuff. |
| 1:07.7 | This is from the struggle in the sentence survey, and this is filled out by, oh, and a note on the interview with Lane. |
| 1:17.2 | She lists towards the beginning of the conversation, she lists a bunch of shames that she had filled out on a survey, and she has them numbered. |
| 1:26.6 | And we have removed number four and five per her request. |
| 1:32.2 | So it'll seem like, hey, where'd four and five go? |
| 1:34.7 | They just jumped from three to six. |
| 1:36.8 | But there you have it. |
| 1:38.7 | This is from the struggle in a sentence survey and this is filled out by a guy who calls himself Glenn. |
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