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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Feeling Drained

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

"Feeling Drained" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.

0:03.8

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0:26.6

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0:28.4

Talking about you feeling drained.

0:31.6

Now, if you're in a marathon, you're going to feel drained.

0:36.2

If you dug a huge ditch, you're going to feel drained. Get my drift. Emotions

0:42.6

drain you just as much as if you do something physical. We don't give her emotions credit

0:50.0

for having that much power, which is interesting. But emotions can wreck you.

1:01.2

Why?

1:03.1

Because your mind cannot be in 80 places at the same time working 17 times as hard as it should

1:09.3

to maintain a semblance of normalcy as it runs your whole

1:12.9

body. I remember one terrible time, a friend, not a close friend, but she had a, evidently a massive

1:22.4

stroke, but her husband was right there, and he was involved in the medical community. So

1:26.1

he got her into the

1:28.0

hospital and intensive care, and when I went to see her, it was a room full of machines.

1:38.2

I had never seen so many machines hooked up to one person, and if I described it anymore, you'd think I was exaggerating.

1:49.0

And I asked, what's this all about here?

1:52.8

And they said, well, we basically put her brain on ice, stopped it, and we have all these machines running her body.

2:04.8

A whole room full of heavy, huge, twinkling lights, screens.

2:13.0

I mean, it was, I hadn't seen this on a science fiction program.

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