#526 The Epidemic of Denial - Dr David Rosmarin

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dr. David Rosmarin, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard joins Paul to discuss the epidemic of people denying reality and how sometimes denial can be useful for us mentally. For more about Dr. Rosmarin go to https://www.mcleanhospital.org/profile/david-h-rosmarin Support Our Sponsors! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp online counseling. To get a free week go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18. For those under 18 you will be redirected to or can go directly to TeenCounseling at www.teencounseling.com Other Links Mentioned WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST ______________________ Subscribe via iTunes and leave a review. It costs nothing. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mental-illness-happy-hour/id427377900?mt=2 ————————————————————————— Spread the word via social media. It costs nothing. Our website is www.mentalpod.com our FB is www.Facebook.com/mentalpod and our Twitter and Instagram are both @Mentalpod -------------------------------------------------------- Become a much-needed Patreon monthly-donor (with occasional rewards) for as little as $1/month at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Become a one-time or monthly donor via Paypal or Zelle (make payment to [email protected]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try Our Sponsor’s Products/Services --------------------------------------------------- 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	Miss Fit toys.
0:02.0	Welcome to episode 526 with my guest Dr. David Rossmarin.
0:06.5	I'm Paul Gilmarton, there's a metal illness happy hour.
0:10.1	We're just trying to get our shit together.
0:12.4	That's all.
0:13.4	We're just locked in hands and saying, how the fuck do we get through this?
0:21.8	I have been having some trouble getting out of bed.
0:24.5	I don't know if it's because the whole rheumatoid arthritis thing.
0:29.6	When I first wake up in the morning, I'll feel like the stabbing pain in my wrists or
0:34.5	down my legs or in my ankles.
0:36.4	It's not like it's nonstop, but it's fleeting moments of it.
0:43.1	The first place I go to in my head is my body is trying to destroy itself.
0:48.5	It's a fucked up feeling when the enemy is inside your body.
0:53.5	I can't imagine what people must go through that have cancer or something that's terminal
0:59.5	that's got to be so hard to make peace with it.
1:03.0	I'm trying to make peace with it.
1:04.2	I'm trying to do what I can, watch my diet and stuff like that.
1:08.4	Every little new creek and a joint or pain that I feel, the catastrophizer, 4,000, which
1:17.5	I had in my brain before this, has certainly got a lot of shit to think about.
1:23.6	A couple of days ago, I was, for some reason, this guy popped into my head that I knew from
1:28.7	high school.
1:30.4	He had taken a job in right out of high school in a quarry, like a union job and he was making
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