“I CONFRONTED MY DEMON”

Therapy Gecko

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Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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A caller reveals how a recurring drug fueled hallucination involving a dragon-like creature inspired him to turn his life around. Later a caller can’t stop jerking off, a caller discusses a resentful boyfriend, and we hear an update about a previous caller via his girlfriend.  Color within the lines. I am a gecko.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:03.0	Hey man, what's your name?
0:04.0	My name is Walter.
0:06.0	Walter.
0:07.0	Yeah, I'm a 29 year old male living in Northern Idaho.
0:11.0	A 29 year old male living in Northern Idaho. A 29 year old male living in Northern Idaho.
0:15.0	Hot, very hot.
0:17.0	What's up, man?
0:18.0	How's it going?
0:19.0	What'd you want to talk about today?
0:20.0	Well, I just wanted to tell a little bit of my story.
0:25.2	Started using drugs around about the age of 12 and
0:29.0	had some pretty crazy times and got really, really bad. But I had an awakening. I was probably about 20 years old and I was at this house and the best room that they had to offer me was a room full of dog shit and dog piss.
0:46.0	It was like the middle of winter and there was no heating and cold air was like hit me on the face and I was like laying there high and I was just like,
0:55.6	oh yeah, this isn't so bad. And then I stayed up for about seven days and had a really intense hallucination where I argued with this large creature on the side of a wall.
1:11.0	And that night I decided that I was completely done, got sober. Within three months I went to college and now I'm working on my master's degree trying to become a professor.
1:27.1	So I guess I just wanted to share with people that it's not impossible to do what you want and you're never too late so
1:37.2	tell me more about this large creature what kind of creature was it
1:41.2	yeah so I did a lot of research into that because I look at life from a lot of different perspectives and the closest thing I could come to was Carl Young, a German psychologist, he talked about something called the dark night of the soul.
2:00.0	And it's something that everybody has inside of them and that at one point in time you have to confront this dark night of the soul and befriend it essentially because it's not really there to scare you but it's there to
2:15.8	help you and you just have to learn how to interact with it so I kind of took that away from that interaction and I've been living with that every
2:26.0	something. So, interesting. So your dark, the dark night of the soul for you manifested itself as a creature on your wall that you argued with.
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