Paul Scheer: I Was Too Passive

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Paul Sheer (hilarious actor, filmmaker, and podcaster) is here to break down the pitfalls of self-diagnosis, the therapeutic power of acknowledging anger, and the significance of agency. He opens up like NEVER BEFORE about his abusive childhood, from how his parents managed to secretly get divorced while he was a kid and how his family secrets impacted his ability to trust into adulthood, to what it means to speak your truth even if it betrays the narratives of others and how he was able to release his anger in order to move forward. He also answers the important question: Does therapy dampen your creativity?? We also discuss: - His late ADHD diagnosis, including his experience with medication and what triggers his spirals - Silver lining of his childhood trauma: Using it to connect with others & how it allowed him to be a better husband and father - How his family’s need to “control the narrative” led to emotional struggle and passivity - Origins of his long-running and widely popular podcast, How Did This Get Made?, and its unexpected impact on the Fast & The Furious franchise - His collections and how they help him connect with his past - Importance of surrounding yourself with creatively challenging people - Healing Nature of Black-and-White Thinking PLUS Mayim opens up about her love for Nicolas Cage! TUNE IN to this hilarious, heartfelt episode today!

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0:00.0	I come out of a situation where no one was there to protect me multiple times.
0:07.0	I did go with a therapist.
0:10.0	Like two or three sessions in, she's like, I'm going to give you this baseball bat.
0:14.5	And it was like a yellow wiffle bat.
0:17.6	And she was like, I want you to let out your anger. I want you to like beat the shit out of this couch like just
0:26.7	beat this couch and I felt like what no fuck that I'm not being this guy I felt stupid I felt like stupid like even doing that
0:34.8	exercise and I was like kind of just like doing it but I couldn't really manufacture
0:39.6	it but what she kind of tapped into was, I had this voice, I had this anger that was there.
0:46.8	And she was really worked on giving me that freedom to find those levels.
0:55.8	And you know, when I say anger, like that's a part of it,
0:59.7	but it was also part of like self-respect,
1:01.5	like the idea of like I can stick up for myself and
1:05.1	not and it's okay if people don't agree with me it's okay if this thing is not popular, right?
1:15.3	I could not go back to therapy, right?
1:17.1	I could do whatever I wanted.
1:18.2	I had autonomy, I had power.
1:20.3	And I think I've been so used to doing just what everybody else wanted to keep everything even
1:26.9	that just the acknowledgement that I had anger started this process of healing that started me to be able to speak about this thing, how I felt about it, how I,
1:36.0	what's going on, why am I mad, it's okay to be mad, it's okay to have opinions, it's okay.
1:41.0	And that was really the beginning of it for me.
1:44.1	And again, it wasn't like something that just clicked
1:46.8	and was like, oh, and tomorrow I'm better.
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