"I'M AFRAID TO DIE"

Therapy Gecko

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Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This is one of my favorite calls I’ve taken on this podcast: a caller and I discuss his persistent health anxiety and how it has leaked into all aspects of his life. We chat about what it means to navigate life while juggling a daunting fear of death, while also reflecting on how death unites us all. Then a couple asks me to weigh in on a important disagreement they are caught in: is it gay to jizz on your own face? Later a caller and I weigh the pros and cons of donating your sperm to a sperm bank. Then the podcast will be over and you can go do something else. I am a gecko.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Lyle just a reminder that I am going on tour to do therapy gecko live
0:06.3	in several cities across the United States and I would love to see you there.
0:10.1	I will be interviewing random folks from the audience up on stage and absolutely anything could happen.
0:16.0	It will be very fun, very terrifying, and very geckoey.
0:21.0	You can find the link to get tickets in your city in the episode description.
0:24.9	Okay, let's get into the podcast. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
0:30.1	How are you? You know, I'm pretty amazed I got in. I know everyone says that but...
0:38.0	Well, here's the thing, somebody was going to get in so why not you?
0:46.5	My thoughts exactly that's why I spammed the call I guess.
1:07.0	What's going on with you Tristan? Well so I know you only usually pick one thing to talk about, so I either wanted to talk to you about my hypochondria that stems from a bad mushroom trip years ago or I kind of been going through a rough time lately
1:11.0	moving cities and having to break up with my fiance.
1:15.0	So.
1:17.0	What, hypercondres, when you think that you are ill all the time correct?
1:24.0	Right.
1:26.0	Yeah, so I was experimenting with a lot of psychedelics, mushrooms, DMT, and I was having a pretty good time.
1:40.0	I know psychedelics don't really cause the issues they kind of bring them out of people and I guess I had some hidden anxiety well a lot of hidden anxiety, well, a lot of hidden anxiety about death, I guess, that I didn't really know how
1:59.2	to cope with or I wasn't aware of when I took some honestly a low dose of mushrooms.
2:09.0	And I think I was, you know, this isn't really diagnosed.
2:24.0	This is more of a self-diagnosis, but I mean, I felt like I went into what you could call a psychosis for maybe six months afterwards? What kind of psychosis?
2:28.0	Well, see, I guess, you know, so after the mushroom trip,
2:32.0	I thought every day afterwards for six months straight I thought I was going to die every day and I thought I thought the mushrooms were poisoned and I thought I had fungus growing in my head.
2:46.3	And it was really, honestly, really, really, really tough to deal with and I went to I went to multiple I spent a lot of money because of my
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