Episode 139: Adoption w/listener Julie J

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Born to a drug-addict teenage mom, Julie was given up for adoption and raised by a stoic military dad and Fundamentalist mom whose obession with demons comes close to resembling the mother from "Carrie". There much more to her story including her humor and resilience. 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 139 with my guest listener, Julie J. I'm Paul Gilmarton.
0:07.1	This is the metal illness happy hour.
0:09.2	Two hours of honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions,
0:13.6	past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:17.8	The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:20.8	It's not a doctor's office.
0:22.8	It's more like a waiting room.
0:24.1	That doesn't suck.
0:25.1	The website for this show is mental pod dot com.
0:28.4	Please go check it out.
0:29.4	There's all kinds of good stuff on there.
0:31.3	And I want to remind you, those of you in the greater Toronto area, I'm coming to do a live
0:37.0	show with Scott Thompson from kids in the hall on Saturday, November 16th at 4 p.m.
0:43.6	There's a link on my website so you can go there and buy tickets or find out more information
0:50.6	really looking forward to it to doing that.
0:52.5	I'm also tentatively planning on doing a group recording of listeners on that Friday
0:56.4	night, November 15th, and being joined by a therapist, Susan Hagen, who was a previous
1:01.5	guest on this show and really helped me through some confusing bullshit.
1:06.3	That'd be great if that was her card, Susan Hagen, helping you through some confusing
1:12.8	bullshit.
1:14.2	Let's get into it.
1:15.7	I want to read this is from the shaman's, I'm sorry, the struggle in the sentence survey
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