Ep 137. Sh*tfaced with Seamus Kirst
Not Another Anxiety Show
Kelli Walker
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Join Kelli and guest Seamus Kirst as he shares his personal journey with addiction, anxiety, and depression.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and joining me today as guest, Shamest Kirst. Hi, Shamus. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi, Kelly. Thanks for taking time to hop on the show |
| 0:22.2 | today. Of course, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be on. Now, do you mind if I |
| 0:27.4 | share a little bit more about you before we start chatting? No, go for it. Great. Shamus Kirst is a writer |
| 0:34.3 | whose work often focuses on mental health and addiction. |
| 0:42.7 | He is the author of the memoir, Shit Faced, which details his teenage experiences with substance abuse, rehab, mental illness, and accepting his sexuality. |
| 0:47.1 | Seamus has interviewed many national politicians, celebrities, and activists. |
| 0:51.4 | His personal writing has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, |
| 0:55.3 | Teen Vogue, Vice, Upworthy, and Huff Post. So, Seamus, I have to ask, what inspired the |
| 1:03.6 | creation of your memoir? Did it, you know, I know for some people writing kind of starts off as |
| 1:10.4 | almost a personal diary or a blog, |
| 1:12.6 | or when you started it, did you have the intent of kind of publishing this thing? |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, so it actually did start as a blog. |
| 1:20.6 | And I had gone to journalism school when I was like 23. |
| 1:25.6 | And during journalism school, I was like way more focused on kind of, I don't know, being |
| 1:31.8 | professionals, like the wrong word, but I was definitely more like, okay, I want to work in |
| 1:35.3 | journalism and like maybe political journalism or entertainment journalism. |
| 1:38.9 | And I felt like I kind of had to maintain a certain image of myself. |
| 1:43.0 | And then after graduating, I was kind of like |
| 1:46.7 | having a little bit of an existential moment of like, |
| 1:49.0 | what am I gonna do? |
| 1:49.9 | And I wound up writing this essay called |
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