Episode 155: Andrew Donnelly

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2014

⏱️ 120 minutes

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The 46 year-old comedian talks about the frustration and shame of battling ADD and depression while trying to be a good husband and father. He and Paul talk about how to deal with anger when feeling overwhelmed and the bright side of living with mental illness. 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	What come to episode 155 with my guest Andrew Donnelly? This episode is sponsored by Daily
0:07.4	Burn, get the first 30 days free when you go to dailyburn.com slash happy hour, daily burn
0:13.2	the best fitness anywhere. I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness happy hour, an hour
0:19.6	two of honesty, a little closer to two hours. Now I'm judging myself for always saying that.
0:24.4	Oh, spiral right out of the time. I'm not going to reset. I'm going to I'm going to plow ahead.
0:38.1	I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness happy hour, two hours of honesty about all the battles
0:44.8	in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday
0:50.7	compulsive negative thinking. This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal
0:55.6	counseling. I'm not a therapist. This isn't a doctor's office. It's more like a waiting room that
0:59.9	doesn't suck. The website for this show is mental pod.com. That's also the name you can follow me
1:05.0	out on Twitter. Go check out the website. There's a forum. There's blogs you can read. You can take
1:10.6	surveys. You can see how other people responded to surveys. You can support the show financially there.
1:17.1	You can shop by t-shirts, coffee mugs, coffee and all help support the running of this show.
1:24.6	Let's get to it. I wanted to read. By the way, I've been feeling really good lately. I think
1:30.3	neurofeedback is starting to kick in and it's really, really nice to feel some of that vigor
1:38.7	returning. I'll just start to take in some more magnesium and that I'm told that helps with
1:44.0	because my muscles were feeling super, super tight. I constantly was feeling like I needed to stretch
1:50.8	and it was really aggravating. I was having trouble sleeping at night. I started taking magnesium
1:57.7	because that helps not only with neurofunction, is that a word? Neurofunction. It helps with your brain.
2:06.7	It also helps with your muscles, helps your muscles to relax. There you go. There you have it.
2:12.9	I hope you wrote that down and flow charted it. This is from the Struggle and the Sentence Survey
2:18.6	filled out by Elizabeth Oz about her anxiety. She writes, you are always selfish and missing
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