Episode 186: Jimmy Doyle

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2014

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

The former Second City improviser turned drug & alcohol counselor talks about his mother's suicide when he was 12, coming out at 16 (in 1981), getting physically sober but being emotionally toxic and being fired from the prestigious improv company and finally having to change. They talk about Jimmy's breakthrough in doing EMDR and CBT therapy. Paul also shares some listener emails and surveys around the topic of suicide given the nature of this week's Robin Williams tragedy. On the surface it might sound like a dark episode but rest assured it is ultimately hopeful. 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 186 with my guest Jimmy Doyle. This episode is sponsored by the American
0:07.7	Foundation for Suicide Prevention and if you would please support them by donating at
0:13.0	ChicagoWalk.org and help prevent suicide prevention. If you're in the Chicago area, join
0:20.9	them for an out of the darkness walk and it's on September 20th. Details donation and registration
0:27.2	information at ChicagoWalk.org. Support suicide prevention by giving a donation donation at
0:35.8	ChicagoWalk.org. Again, that's ChicagoWalk.org. This is the Metal Inless Happy Hour. I'm Paul
0:46.2	Gil Martin. Now I did that backwards. Let's plow forward. I'm Paul Gil Martin. This is the
0:52.9	Metal Inless Happy Hour. Honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions,
0:58.4	past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. This shows not
1:04.0	meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. It's not a doctor's office. I'm not
1:08.5	a therapist or an expert. I'm a Jack Estetel's Dick jokes and this is more like a waiting room that
1:13.4	doesn't suck. The website for this show is mentalpod.com. Go there, check it out, read the forum, read a guest
1:21.4	blog or a blog by me. Support the show, make a donation, take a survey, see how other people
1:30.1	filled out surveys. Or is that like to say, sit at home with your thumb and you're asking, go
1:35.1	fuck yourself. Wow, that was harsh. That was unnecessary, Paul. Well, as you guys know, it has been a
1:44.6	heartbreaking week for a lot of people. I would I would venture to say most uh
1:51.8	most any movie goer, um whoever saw Robin Williams, um, had to, you know, my first,
2:02.4	I think the first movie that I was like, wow, this guy is amazing.
2:07.4	Was the world according to Garb. It's just the vulnerability that he played in that.
2:15.3	I wanted to be him when I was 14 years old. I just, I never missed an episode of more
2:20.8	in Mendy. It was, it was nothing else like it. It was for those of you that are, that are younger
2:27.6	that didn't have a before and after idea of what his comedy was like when it came out. It was,
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