Female Sex Addiction - Erica Garza

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

The Salon contributor and author of Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction shares about her sex addiction, which began at age 12 after discovering masturbation as a way of soothing her anxiety and not having to deal with her feelings but over time escalated into riskier and more addictive behavior which she eventually sought help for. She shares about the odd relationship shame and pleasure have for her when acting out and how today she can have sexual experiences that are actually intimate and freeing. For more on Erica go to www.EricaGarza.com Follow her on Twitter @EricaDGarza Buy her book here This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. To get your first week of online counseling free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18 This episode is sponsored by SquareSpace. For a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain go to www.SquareSpace.com and use offer code Mental. To see Paul's SquareSpace site with his dog pictures and music go to www.Paul-Gilmartin.squarespace.com This episode is sponsored by SeatGeek. Save $20 off your first ticket purchase by downloading the app and using promo code MENTAL To become a monthly donor for as little as $1/month (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod To make a one-time donation via Paypal go to www.mentalpod.com/donate To help fund Paul's next trip to record international guests, especially in Ireland, go to https://www.gofundme.com/pauls-trip-to-ireland Follow Paul on Twitter @mentalpod and Instagram @mentalpod 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 369 with my guest, Erica Garza. Today's episode is brought to us by Squarespace.
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0:48.4	mental to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. This is a metal illness happy
0:55.9	hour. I hope I didn't catch you off guard. Boy, that would have been weird if you meant to be
1:02.5	listening to another podcast. And here I come elbowing my way into your ears. This is this podcast
1:10.6	is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
1:17.2	past traumas and sexual dysfunction do everyday compulsive negative thinking. I'm not a therapist.
1:23.5	The show is not meant to be a solution to anything. It's not a bankers office is more like a waiting
1:28.5	room that doesn't suck. The show is part interview part listener confessions via the surveys that
1:35.0	people fill out and I read. And I love it. I love doing it. And I love the input that I get from
1:45.6	you guys, the listeners. Here's an awful some moment filled out by accidental criminal. And she writes,
1:55.2	I've been supporting and caring for a friend who has been suicidal since Christmas. The other night
1:59.8	he told me he'd taken out his gun and stared at it thinking about killing himself. I drove over
2:04.3	to his house and after some discussion, I convinced him to let me have his gun for the time being
2:09.2	until he felt safe having it in his home again. Physically and emotionally exhausted and I drove
2:14.3	home after getting him settled when I realized I had neat and dinner and I was starving. I pulled
2:18.8	into McDonald's to get some fries and as the drive through employee opened the window, I saw his
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