#690 Married To An Addict/Alcoholic - Dana Killion

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Dana Killion is an author of mystery and memoir whose work is informed by her own life’s turmoil. She opens up about her marriage to a high-functioning alcoholic and how she has worked on her issues of codependency. Be sure to check out her new book, Where the Shadows Dance: He Got Sober. I Got Broken

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 690 with my guest Danakillion.
0:04.0	Let me start with my name Paul Gil Martin.
0:08.0	This is the Metalona's happy hour and it's a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.
0:15.0	I'm not a therapist and it is not meant to be a substitute for professional
0:20.3	mental counseling. I think that voice right there should tell you two things.
0:28.0	One, I'm not a therapist and two, I do need a therapist.
0:34.0	Thank you, those of you that are supporting the podcast on Patreon.
0:40.0	We still have a long way to go, but man do I appreciate those of you that are stepping up and I know
0:48.1	there's all kinds of things that I wanted to share with you and soon as I hit record they all disappear from my brain.
0:57.0	So let's read some surveys, see what happens there.
1:02.0	This is from the Comet and Someone's Survey
1:05.0	podcast filled out by our friend who calls herself the Habsburg jaw.
1:10.0	And she writes on an earlier episode, there was a survey with this story, quote,
1:14.8	honey for sale, unquote. It's stuck in my mind since you read it and I was
1:19.2	wondering if you could read it again or share which episode it was in as I've struggled to find it. I'm so
1:25.3	sorry but I did a search and I cannot find it so maybe a if there's a listener listening right now who knows where that survey is, let me know.
1:42.3	Let me know. You can shoot me an email through the website. And you can also
1:50.4	fill out a survey. But you got to get to those through the website.
1:54.2	So you're going to be the website anyway, so you figure it out.
2:00.8	This is from the Voice in Your Head survey filled out by Japper Jaws and what are some of the things you tell yourself about yourself.
2:09.0	He writes, you are useless, you've wasted your potential, lost all your friendships, and destroy the only loving
2:16.2	relationship you've ever had. You've wasted your life and you don't deserve to live.
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