My Fair Junkie - Amy Dresner

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

The author (My Fair Junkie) details her jaw-dropping and often hilarious descent from a nice (but spoiled) Jewish girl from Beverly Hills to shooting coke into her neck, bottoming out on meth and sex and being assigned to a chain gang after threatening her ex-husband with a knife and ultimately having to rebuild her life. She shares on her struggled with self-harm, BDD, depression, anxiety, sex addiction, suicide attempts, psych ward stays, fear of growing up, the danger of relying on her father's money, their complicated relationship and the abandonment by her mother. For more on Amywww.amydresner.com twitter: @AmyDresner IG: @amydresner FB: @amydresnerofficial And buy her book My Fair Junkie This ep is sponsored by BetterHelp online therapy. To try a week of counseling for free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18 This ep is sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Learn more at www.JHSPH.edu/FeelGood This ep is sponsored by Casper mattresses. Get $50 towards select mattresses by going to www.Casper.com/mental and using offer code MENTAL as well. Terms and conditions apply. To become a monthly donor (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod To make a one-time donations 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 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 5.
0:04.7	Welcome to Episode 364 with my guest Amy Dresner.
0:11.8	Today's episode is sponsored by Johns Hopkins University.
0:15.3	Every day is about making tomorrow better and is the number one ranked school of public
0:19.3	health since 1994.
0:21.3	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:24.3	Boy that's mouthful.
0:25.8	Then help you become a public health advocate to transform communal health in a holistic
0:31.0	evidence-based way.
0:32.7	With 20 plus graduate programs and more than 300 global research projects, it is the oldest
0:39.1	and largest school of public health.
0:41.7	Learn more at jhsph.edu-fuelgood.
0:47.2	Put this link on our website under our show notes.
0:50.5	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health protecting health, saving lives, millions
0:55.8	at a time.
0:56.8	I cut an email.
0:59.7	As I shared on last week's episode, we no longer have an Amazon link.
1:05.2	They canceled my associate account because apparently I broke the rules by mentioning there's
1:11.3	an Amazon link on our website.
1:15.1	One of the friends of the show emailed me, Amazon can suck a bag of dicks.
1:24.8	And I thought, you know what though, to get them the bag of dicks, you probably have
1:29.5	to ship it through Amazon.
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