Episode 148: Matthew Walden

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2014

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Although the writer/listener grew up in Hawaii, his childhood was far from paradise; enduring a cornucopia of PTSD, leaving him wondering what is real and what isn't. He also shares his obsession with cults and and the time he joined one to write about it and almost lost his mind. 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 148 with my guest, Matthew Walden.
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0:10.4	and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio.
0:14.5	For a free trial and 10% off, go to squarespace.com and use the offered code mental.
0:19.6	I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.
0:23.5	And now we're to have honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:26.2	We're medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:30.6	compulsive negative thinking.
0:32.6	The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional counseling, I'm not a therapist.
0:37.1	Not a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:41.2	The website for this show is mentalpod.com, it's also the Twitter name you can follow me
0:45.7	at.
0:46.7	Please go to the website, check it out.
0:48.5	All kinds of good stuff there.
0:49.5	You can join the forum, you can read blogs by myself and other people.
0:54.6	You can take a survey, see how other people filled out surveys, or you can support the
1:00.0	show financially.
1:01.8	Or you can just sit with your thumb and your ass and watch the pages fall off the calendar.
1:08.6	How's that grab you?
1:09.6	What do you think of that?
1:12.6	Why am I swinging at you right out of the gate?
1:16.3	Because I'm afraid you're judging me, that's why.
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