#798 - Foster Care, Death & The Navy - Forrest Lang
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Forrest Lang is an author and CSA (child sex abuse) advocate. He shares the story of his own childhood abuse, growing up in the foster care system, the death of his best friend, and how the Navy saved him. Look for his memoir, Angel Blue: A Song Of Redemption.
More about Forrest etc:
https://www.instagram.com/forrestlangofficial?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063723156268&mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr
https://youtube.com/@forrest619?si=5jFDz_OTG7BxCelX
https://angelbluebook.com/shop/
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/angel-blue-a-song-of-redemption-unabridged/id1641763928
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/angel-blue-forrest-lang/1147815412
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 798 with my guest, Forrest Lang. My name is Paul Gilmartin. And if you're new, welcome. |
| 0:07.8 | I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsative thing. |
| 0:20.4 | Compulsive? Everyday compulsive thing. |
| 0:21.5 | Compulsive? |
| 0:23.9 | Everyday compulsive thinking. |
| 0:28.2 | This show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. |
| 0:30.5 | I am not a therapist. |
| 0:43.4 | Those of you that are regular listeners know that I have been struggling emotionally lately and I'm still kind of in it. |
| 0:50.3 | I don't have the bandwidth to do the surveys either here or on Patreon, but I am going to do a little update on on Patreon. |
| 0:56.2 | I've started a therapeutic physical therapy called pelvic floor physical therapy, |
| 1:02.9 | because apparently a lot of trauma can be trapped in that area. |
| 1:08.3 | And then you add in the fact that i've had you know multiple surgeries |
| 1:15.0 | in that area and some really traumatizing childhood experiences with a kind of a sadistic doctor i |
| 1:23.3 | don't think he was intentionally sadistic but yeah yeah, it was it was very traumatizing. |
| 1:28.6 | So my hope is that this is going to help unlock some of that stuff. |
| 1:36.0 | So yeah, I'll I'll share about that in lieu of the surveys this week on the Patreon feed. |
| 1:45.7 | And if you want to help the show out, Patreon's a great way to do it. |
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