#689 Raised To Present Well - Dr Kate Truitt
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kate Truitt is a psychologist and neuroscientist who wants to share her own story of how she came to this work. Armed with her knowledge of the mind, she has worked to process her difficult childhood and the personal tragedy of losing her fiancé right before their wedding. Look for her new book Keep Breathing: A Psychologist's Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life.
More About Dr. Truitt
Her new book, Keep Breathing (link below) comes out April 2nd
Websites:
Personal: www.drkatetruitt.com
Clinic: www.drtruitt.com
Educational: www.truittinstitute.com
Social Media Links:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrKateTruitt
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.katetruitt
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkatetruitt/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.katetruitt/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrKateTruitt
Books & Give Aways for Promotion:
Keep Breathing: A Psychologist’s Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life (NEW)
- Free Keep Breathing Companion Toolkit on my website : www.drkatetruitt.com
⁃ Free building resilience with neuroplasticity worksheets on my website: www.drkatetruitt.com
Resources Paul Mentioned on the podcast for someone feeling suicidal or having suicidal thoughts (in addition to filling out a safety plan):
- Local Urgent Care Services
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: dial 988
- Crisis Text Line: text the word “home” to 741-741
- Emergency Medical Services 911
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 689 with my guest Dr Kate Truitt. This is the Metal |
| 0:06.0 | Illness Happy Hour and if you're new this is a place for honesty about all the |
| 0:09.4 | battles in our heads past and present. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:14.0 | The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional medal counseling. |
| 0:19.0 | The website for this show is MedalPod.com |
| 0:22.0 | and MedalPod is the social media handle. You can follow us at. |
| 0:27.0 | I debated whether or not to talk about what I'm going to talk about right now. |
| 0:37.0 | Something from my life that I, the reason I've decided to talk about it is because I think it's |
| 0:48.5 | important and I want to say the word important more like a seven-year-old trying to learn to say the word |
| 0:58.0 | important. I have been I wouldn't use the word battling I've been experiencing fleeting suicidal ideation |
| 1:11.0 | the last couple of months. This is not meant to be a backdoor way of |
| 1:21.6 | me trying to get more people to donate to the podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | This is something that, first of all I want to say there is no depression. |
| 1:41.0 | I am enjoying the hell out of the things that bring me pleasure. |
| 1:45.8 | So these, this suicidal ideation is really |
| 2:26.5 | something that that is a pattern that is historical for me and it's, how will relate to this, it's a way of when we feel cornered or overwhelmed in our lives, it's just a fleeting thought of, oh, there's always that exit door. |
| 2:30.9 | I have, and again, these thoughts are fleeting. |
| 2:35.0 | I may be experiencing them several days a week, some weeks, every day, but the really important thing, |
| 2:45.2 | and I've been talking with the therapist |
| 2:49.0 | that I've been using via cerebral, who is an advertiser on the show. |
| 2:58.8 | And the important thing, |
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