I'm Worried Sick About My Parents

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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On top of being many months pregnant, Emma is trying to help both of her parents through their mental health issues. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Emma, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. I've been listening to you in my whole life.
0:19.4	Oh, thank you. 27 years. I like it. Oh, in utero also, I'm assuming. All right.
0:24.7	How can I help?
0:28.1	So, I'm newly married, well, at the beginning of the year, and quite pregnant with our first.
0:36.9	And both of my parents have been going through a pretty serious mental health crisis.
0:43.6	And so...
0:43.8	What do you mean by that?
0:44.8	What do you mean by that?
0:48.8	My mother's in an inpatient facility right now.
0:53.3	For what?
0:53.9	For what? For what? For serious PTSD.
0:57.3	And my father was...
1:00.2	What caused PTSD?
1:03.1	Yes.
1:05.7	She believes it's largely stemming back to...
1:08.4	And they're finding that it's largely from her childhood.
1:12.1	Okay, moving right along to your father, what's his mental health issue?
1:19.1	He was admitted to the ER and was held on a mental floor for like five days because of like suicidal ideations.
1:33.3	Got it.
1:34.4	And now he's out but trying to find further treatment because obviously five days did not
1:41.8	really help him.
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