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The Angry Therapist Podcast

The Polaroid Syndrome

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, John talks about the Polaroid Syndrome: looking back at old snapshots of your past relationships.




Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

0:05.6

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

0:10.4

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

0:16.2

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

0:19.2

So Vanessa and I were talking the other day on the way home from a long drive and she was telling me about how her ex-boyfriend was doing and this was her college boyfriend this was you know the big one the

0:37.2

imprint on powder snow

0:41.3

The one that you compare you know all your other relationships with the one that you lost yourself in and my first thought revelation is that I didn't feel any kind of jealousy I actually engaged in the

0:58.4

conversation and what she was talking about without anything personal meaning there was there was no

1:07.9

you know feelings of comparison or jealousy or or any of that.

1:12.7

It was just like listening like a friend,

1:15.1

which I thought at 49 I finally come to a place

1:20.0

where I don't, it's really,

1:22.2

it takes a lot for me to be jealous I don't experience that

1:26.0

feeling as much as I did say my 20s and 30s the second revelation is something that I call the Polaroid Syndrome and this is you know when

1:40.0

because I well here here's what I was jealous of actually I wasn't jealous of him or threatened I was jealous of the fact that

1:48.5

She got to be friends with him that after all these years they still talk and and they're

1:55.3

following each other stories and the intentions are you know there are no

2:01.0

intentions other than just you know friends and two people in this world

2:05.8

who have collided and hope the best for each other, right?

2:09.8

So I got jealous because I wish I had that and a lot of my relationships in the past

2:18.8

didn't end well or there was definitely a lot of feelings, unresolved feelings,

2:27.0

probably more on their side than mine.

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