Motherland

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Children are often taught to respect and honor their parents. For Elissa Altman, this is complicated by the fact that her mother has narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. Elissa couldn’t escape her mother’s emotional and verbal abuse when she was a child. Now, as an adult, she must learn how to untangle herself from her aging mother’s web and still provide the care she needs. Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was given a prescription by my physician that I was going to be dead if I didn't move out
0:08.5	by the time I was 25.
0:12.5	I'm Nora McNeerney and this is Terrible Thanks for Asking and that was today's guest,
0:18.7	Alyssa.
0:20.6	When Alyssa's physician gave her this unusual prescription, Alyssa's beautiful blonde
0:26.5	curls were falling out in clumps.
0:29.9	She rose in the morning to a spike of cortisol and fell asleep only after ameliorating the anxiety
0:35.0	with enough red wine.
0:37.1	Her eyes were bloodshot, her blood pressure was through the roof.
0:41.5	What about her living situation could be making her this sick?
0:46.2	Any guesses?
0:47.2	Was it lead paint chipping off the windowsills?
0:49.5	Was it tainted water?
0:51.7	Some asbestos?
0:52.7	No, no, no, no, no.
0:55.1	It was Alyssa's mother.
1:04.4	There are 10 commandments in the Old Testament.
1:06.8	10 rules to live by and I could not for the life of me recite them to you even after over
1:12.2	a decade of Catholic school.
1:14.8	You shouldn't be jealous.
1:17.6	You shouldn't kill.
1:19.6	I am pulling these deep out of my subconscious right now.
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