99. The Skin I'm In

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nicole has a secret disease she says is kinda gross. How she hides it and the heartbreaking toll it takes on her.

Here are Nicole and her husband, & the the break room her friend disinfected. They're waiting on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Search @secretroompod.

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PODCAST TEAM
Susie Lark, Sachelle Brooks, Elkid and Alessandro Nigro. Chet is the sound engineer. Music and Theme by Breakmaster Cylinder.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Thanks to BetterHelp for supporting the secret room for 10% off your first month go to BetterHelp.com
0:07.4	slash secret
0:09.8	Thanks to Buffy for supporting the secret room for $20 off your Buffy Comforter visit buffy.co and enter promo code secret
0:18.0	What's your secret?
0:20.0	My secret is when I was younger I would eat baby powder. Oh my god and
0:26.7	The only person I knew about it was my mom because she ate it too and at one point I
0:32.8	Was sprinkling it on Ritz crackers
0:37.4	Oh my god, that is too funny when I was a little kid
0:41.4	I used to eat my grandmother's dogs live a snaps
0:45.0	I don't know what the deal was I was like two or three years old and they were down there in the bowl like little red
0:52.3	Triangles and yellow squares and I guess cute little shapes and they would look over at me and be like oh my god
0:58.8	She's eating my dog food
1:00.8	I'm sorry
1:18.0	Okay
1:20.3	My name is Nicole and my secret is I have a condition that I hide from the world
1:25.7	It's actually kind of gross and I deal with it constantly most days
1:30.1	I'm in a great deal of pain nobody around me knows what I'm continuously going through and I hide it from everyone because I'm too embarrassed to let them know
1:39.0	Hold on one Nicole tells us about a problem. She deals with just about every moment of every day
1:45.3	One percent of the population has this condition just one percent
1:51.6	It's debilitating and is punctuated by extreme highs and extreme lows
1:57.1	You must just have these bursts of elation I really do yeah
2:03.2	Because it just
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