#800 - Best Of - A Day Of You The Listener
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired in 2012, this was the first ever “all listener” show. Paul reads their emails, surveys and more, all filled out within a 24 hour period to give the audience a sense of what a given day in our community’s life is like.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 800 with my guest, you the listener. |
| 0:06.1 | That's right. |
| 0:06.7 | This was the very first episode that we ever, where I ever read, not surveys. |
| 0:14.2 | I had read surveys before, but this was a day, just a 24-hour snapshot of emails, correspondence that I'd had in surveys that people |
| 0:25.3 | filled out because I kind of wanted to present what the experience of it was like for me |
| 0:35.6 | to correspond with people, read their life stories. |
| 0:41.1 | And I thought it was kind of a fascinating smattering, do I use that word, of human experience. |
| 0:49.8 | It's one of the things that I feel privileged to do doing this show is I get such a diversity of stories. |
| 0:59.2 | And yes, sometimes it weighs on me. |
| 1:02.3 | That's one of the reasons why I've been not reading any news surveys lately. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm still in it, man. I'm still in it, man. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm still in it, and I just, I need a break. |
| 1:17.4 | And everybody's been really supportive. |
| 1:19.4 | So I'm going to resist going down the rabbit hole |
| 1:23.4 | and just say, yeah, this is another week of a best of episode. |
| 1:28.1 | But yeah, what can I say? |
| 1:38.6 | Fucking trauma. |
| 1:39.8 | Processing trauma is, God, it's like just when you think it's done, there is just another layer. |
| 1:48.4 | I had mistakenly thought that I was done. |
| 1:53.3 | And in many ways, I feel like I did 12, 13 years ago, actually probably similar to how I felt when this episode came out, |
| 2:07.3 | because this was originally episode number 77. |
| 2:10.4 | So that would have been right around when I was starting to really unpack a lot of heavy shit from my life. |
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