Episode 104: Siblings/Listeners John & Megan Brehman

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Relationships, Sexuality, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2013

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

The siblings discuss growing up in an affluent but emotionally witholding household, and how their struggles with depression and her eating disorder ultimately brought them closer together. They talk about the difficulty of connecting with an emotionally shutdown mother consumed with presenting a facade of normalcy to the outside world. They discuss John's childhood self-harming, Megan's non-purging bulimia and compulsive exercising and starving, and the importance of finally asking for help from people who could emotionally provide it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Episode 104 with my guests, listeners, John and Megan Bremen.
0:08.5	My name is Paul Gilmarten, that was very, very Bill Curtis like the way I introduced
0:13.1	them.
0:14.1	There might be a murder.
0:16.8	My name is Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness, happy hour, 90 minutes of honesty
0:20.6	about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas to
0:26.0	do everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:28.1	This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, it's not
0:32.3	a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:36.1	The website for this show is metalpod.com.
0:40.0	All kinds of stuff there on the website, metalpod is also the name you can follow me on Twitter.
0:47.3	If you want to know when I'm going to be performing somewhere or sometimes I'll do like
0:52.2	a fear off or a love off on Twitter, if you follow me on Twitter, then you can be a part
0:57.4	of that.
0:58.4	One of the things I've been talking with the listeners about is trying to do some type
1:01.2	of internet meetup, either via Google Plus Hangouts or maybe doing like a tweet up where
1:11.8	you do a hashtag MIHH for a metal illness, happy hour and maybe have like a specific time
1:18.6	set aside.
1:20.1	To talk about it more, I created a thread in the forum called Meetups, so if you want
1:25.2	to go check that out.
1:26.2	If you haven't been to the forum in a while, please go check it out.
1:28.6	I created a whole bunch of new threads there that hopefully will accommodate a lot of the
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