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Mental Illness Happy Hour

Episode 111: Karen Kilgariff Live in Portland

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2013

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

The actress (Mr. Show) and writer (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) shares about struggling to fit in, body shame, her alcoholism, her mother's Alzheimers, learning to accept her body and become vulnerable and her experiences in therapy.  Recorded 4/20/13 at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 111 with my guest, Karen Kilgaraf, recorded live at the Bridgetown

0:06.8

Comedy Festival in Portland.

0:08.8

I'm Paul Gilmarten.

0:09.8

This is the metal illness.

0:10.8

Happy hour.

0:11.8

90 minutes of honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions

0:15.9

and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

0:19.6

This show is not meant to be substitute for professional mental counseling.

0:22.9

It's not a doctor's office.

0:24.7

It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.

0:26.5

The website for this show is mentalpod.com.

0:29.6

Please go there.

0:30.6

Join the forum.

0:31.6

Take the surveys.

0:32.6

Maybe even go there and go fuck yourself.

0:34.6

I don't know if anybody's tried that yet, but I encourage you to go.

0:38.2

I don't know why the hostility at you right out of the gate, but let's embrace it.

0:43.2

It's all a part of being human, wow.

0:50.3

I had an awesome time at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland.

0:54.6

Many thanks to everybody who put it on, especially the listeners that came on and supported

0:59.3

not only the live metal illness, happy hour show, which you are about to hear, but the

1:05.4

listener group recording that we did at Lewis and Clark College, many thanks to Maddie,

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