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Mental Illness Happy Hour

Episode 96: Escort/Prostitute Lillith

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2013

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

"Lillith" (not her real name) opens up to Paul about why she chooses to moonlight as an escort/prostitute, even though her day job pays the bills.  She talks about living with a rapid cycling form of BiPolar type I, childhood sexual trauma, how her mania helped her excel academically, and the myths and truths about having sex for money. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 96 with my guest, Lilith.

0:06.7

My name is Paul Gilmarten.

0:07.7

This is the metal illness, happy hour, 90 minutes of honesty about all the battles in

0:11.5

our heads, for medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative

0:17.1

thinking.

0:18.1

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, it's not

0:21.5

a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room, it's filled with conversations you've

0:25.6

always wanted to have, but didn't know how to start.

0:28.5

Huh?

0:29.5

Thank you.

0:30.5

You like it?

0:31.5

I think we might, I think we might have found a new waiting room metaphor.

0:39.4

The website for this show is mentalpod.com.

0:44.5

That's also the Twitter name that you can follow me at, mental pod.

0:47.6

Please follow me on Twitter, especially monthly donors, because then I can let you know

0:50.8

when I'm raffling off a cutting board or something like that, or I can let you know when

0:54.1

there's a good article on the newspaper about stuff like that.

0:59.4

A couple of things I wanted to mention.

1:04.1

I got a great email from a counselor in Texas who told me that if you have, if you're struggling

1:14.4

to find affordable mental health care, if you have ever been the victim of sexual abuse,

1:20.6

you may qualify for free counseling at a rape, rape crisis center.

1:24.6

And for more information, go to the rape and incest national network website, that's

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