Episode 129: David Hirohama on Counseling Predators

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2013

⏱️ 122 minutes

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The 3rd generation Japanese-American psychologist shares his experience and observations counseling sexual predators (rapists and child molesters) at Coalinga, a lockdown mental hospital in central California and how he used Buddhism to help him cope. 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 129 with my guest psychologist David Hirohama.
0:06.9	I'm Paul Gilmarton.
0:07.9	This is the metal illness, happy hour.
0:09.8	And hour or two have honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed
0:13.5	conditions and past traumas that every day compulsive negative thinking.
0:17.3	The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, it's not
0:21.4	a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:24.9	The website for this show is mentholedpod.com.
0:28.0	Please go there, check it out, you can support the show financially, you can take surveys,
0:32.4	you can see how other people filled out their surveys, you can join the forum, and you
0:38.2	can read blogs by me and by many, many guests.
0:43.3	I haven't written a blog in a long time, so I don't know why I said that, because I'm
0:47.6	a liar.
0:48.6	Big fat fucking liar, uh oh, one minute in, and we are shaming ourselves, is that a new
0:55.1	record?
0:56.1	Probably not.
0:57.1	I don't want to share with you, we're going to get into the show pretty quickly.
1:04.1	Wanted to mention podfest is coming up, so if you're going to come to LA for it, that
1:09.8	Sunday, October 6th, and I'll be doing a show, a live show from noon to 2pm, and all the
1:16.1	information about podfest is at lapodfest.com, and there's all kinds of good podcasts there.
1:24.7	So go to the website and check it out, it's going to be a really fun weekend.
1:28.7	I have had a really good week, had a good therapy session on Monday, and my therapist suggested
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