Aliens, Divorce, and White Rats with Dr. MC McDonald

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, John and MC talk about aliens, what they would have changed about their divorce, and how we can be trained to be afraid - an experience from the 1920's - in John and MC's new segment called "Science of the Day." You can find MC's Instagram: @mc.phd and her website at: https://alchemycoaching.life/mc-mcdonald-phd This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/angry and start building a better relationship with yourself. Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being. Meet him at -> https://www.theangrytherapist.com Join his private communities -> https://theangrytherapist.circle.so/home Get his daily texts here -> https://www.theangrytherapist.com/text Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own
0:04.3	rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life
0:08.9	lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose
0:16.2	because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated.
0:19.0	My first question to you is, do you believe in aliens?
0:27.0	It's everywhere right now on social media.
0:29.0	It's everywhere right now.
0:30.0	What are your thoughts on aliens? I'm afraid to believe and I'm afraid not to believe.
0:37.2	I'm afraid to believe because there was this moment like a couple weeks ago where I was reading
0:41.9	it was the New York Times I was reading, I was the New York Times, I was reading this thing about
0:45.2	this congressional hearing or whatever, and I'm reading about aliens and I'm like, okay, is this what it's
0:51.0	like to have a psychotic episode?
0:54.0	Right?
0:55.0	Oh wait, what do you mean?
0:56.0	How does that connect?
0:58.0	Because it just seems like this is such a,
1:00.0	this is so far out, literally,'s like when you're in psychosis you believe in a reality wholehearted
1:09.3	me that is not there and so you know like you believe that someone's been body snatched or you believe, right, there's all these like common, you know, psychosies and delusions and I was like, this feels so outside of the realm of what was normal like six months ago that how can I actually
1:26.4	tell that this is real do you know what I mean?
1:30.0	Have you been really close like six inches close to a draft?
1:37.0	Yes.
1:40.0	Did it not blow you away?
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