#692 Foster Parenting - Michael Laurie
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Michael Laurie is an actor, a small group facilitator, and a parent. He talks with Paul about his road to recovery and shares his unusual story of becoming a foster parent, with all the love and pain that entails.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 692 with my guest Michael Lorry. You're listening to the |
| 0:06.0 | mental illness happy hour which is a place for honesty about all the battles in our |
| 0:11.2 | heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and |
| 0:15.2 | sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:19.4 | The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling is I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm a former TV host, former touring stand-up comedian, But I've also been in support groups for 20 years, 20 years sober. |
| 0:38.6 | Been in and out of therapy for decades. |
| 0:44.2 | Been under the care of a psychiatrist for 20 years |
| 0:47.0 | and I feel like I've learned a lot, |
| 0:48.7 | and I have a lot to share. |
| 0:49.8 | So if you're new to the podcast, just give me a goddamn minute would you for those of |
| 0:56.5 | you who are considering becoming Patreon members and we could greatly use your |
| 1:01.6 | support you know if you if you get any kind of value |
| 1:05.0 | from this podcast and you have the financial means, |
| 1:09.3 | you can become a Patreon member for as little |
| 1:12.4 | as a dollar a month and certain levels you get |
| 1:15.7 | certain rewards and at the five dollar level and above you get bonus surveys every week usually around I don't know 15 20 minutes of |
| 1:27.0 | surveys and we got some good ones on the bonus surveys for for Patreon this week |
| 1:32.4 | we've got some stuff about trying to be |
| 1:37.8 | comfortable with uncertainty. We've got a very dark struggle in a sentence survey, a hilarious vacation argument, and a really |
| 1:48.8 | bittersweet survey about the pain of losing a dog, but there's a lot of sweetness to it too. |
| 1:58.0 | This is from the Aschapol Anything survey and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself |
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