Episode 125: Vietnam Vet Randy Olea

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2013

⏱️ 126 minutes

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A father/brother figure to Paul, the high-school teacher reflects on his Mexican heritage, violent upbringing, tour in Vietnam, stints as a bouncer at a Hell's Angels bar, and a Club Med guide, his getting "struck sober" and how he has evolved to become the man his father never was. 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 125 with my guest, Randy O'Leah.
0:06.3	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:07.3	This is the metal illness happy hour.
0:09.3	An hour or two of honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions
0:13.7	and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:17.1	This show's not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:20.3	It's not a doctor's office.
0:21.9	It's more like a waiting room.
0:23.9	It doesn't suck.
0:25.5	The website for this show is mentalpod.com.
0:30.6	Please go check it out.
0:32.2	There's all kinds of stuff you can do there.
0:33.5	You can join the forum.
0:34.7	You can support the show financially.
0:38.0	You can take one of the many surveys that thousands of people have filled out and are an important
0:45.7	part of this show.
0:47.9	That blows my mind sometimes when I think about it that like 20,000 people have taken,
0:54.9	oh, maybe not that many, maybe like 15,000 people have taken the surveys on the website.
1:02.0	It's so cool getting to know.
1:05.6	When people take them anonymously, there's just something about what they share that I don't
1:12.4	know.
1:15.8	I'm learning so much.
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