#788 Discovering Sexuality & Processing Trauma - "Marilyn"
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Marilyn is a support group friend who opens up about her journey to discovering her sexuality and her tendency toward love addiction. She talks about how she’s processing her trauma and what it meant to come out to herself and her community.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 788 with my guest Marilyn. |
| 0:04.2 | And Marilyn is the pseudonym we're going to use so that she can open up freely. |
| 0:11.6 | And she's an acquaintance of mine from the support group. |
| 0:14.1 | So I'm going to be learning a lot about her as you do. |
| 0:18.4 | If you're new to this podcast, welcome. |
| 0:20.4 | I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads |
| 0:25.6 | from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday |
| 0:30.0 | compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:32.6 | This show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental health. |
| 0:38.0 | It is, I'm not a doctor. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:41.7 | It's more like the waiting room that doesn't suck. |
| 0:48.0 | Last week, I had mentioned that some of the surveys, one of the surveys was going to touch on something that happened |
| 0:56.2 | that was a war crime. And I did not get to that survey. So if you heard me say that in the |
| 1:03.8 | beginning of last week's episode, and then you're like, where's the survey about that? |
| 1:08.1 | I'm including it in this week's survey. And the reason for that is I almost always make a stack of surveys to read that is thicker |
| 1:20.8 | than I will get to because I reach a certain point in reading the surveys where I'm just like, |
| 1:26.6 | okay, that's, I've, that feels like |
| 1:31.0 | the right amount and reading any more would either begin to burn me out or I think would make |
| 1:36.3 | the, the episode too long. So that was one of the ones that didn't make it into last week's |
| 1:42.4 | episode, but it is in this week's episode. |
| 1:47.8 | This is from the psych ward experiences survey, and this is filled out by a guy in his 40s, |
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