#696 Best Of: Seeking Oblivion - Paul's Friend Karma
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A favorite episode among listeners and from the first year of the podcast (2011). How do you cope when you are convinced your life is constantly in danger as a child? First, you band together with your siblings and form an army, then you learn about the sweet oblivion of addiction. Paul’s friend Karma withholds her last name and picture so she can fully reveal the family life that nearly killed her, but ultimately forced her to grow. A fairly heavy interview so Paul throws in a little something after the interview to hopefully make you laugh.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 696, a Best of episode with my friend, |
| 0:05.0 | Karma, and I don't mean the thing Karma. |
| 0:09.4 | I mean my friend whose name is Karma. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a really a really powerful interview pretty heavy. She's a |
| 0:16.8 | friend I made through a support group and we'll talk all about that during during |
| 0:20.8 | the interview with her but this is from over a decade ago but it's one of my favorites |
| 0:26.3 | and I'm doing two best of episodes this weekend next week because my girlfriend is paying for us to go visit her family in Ecuador. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm excited to meet her family in person. |
| 0:42.4 | I've met a couple of them, but I have not met her parents in person yet, or her little nephew, or her big nephew, both nephews. |
| 0:53.6 | And so I'm looking forward to it, |
| 0:55.8 | looking forward to just seeing the mountains. |
| 0:58.6 | I guess Kido is it 9,000 feet elevation? |
| 1:02.1 | So I don't know, I'm a little nervous about getting altitude sickness |
| 1:06.3 | the first couple of days, but I'm looking forward to just seeing where she grew up and trying |
| 1:12.0 | different kinds of foods and spending time with her family and all that. |
| 1:17.0 | So yeah, all of that is to say I'm super stressed out. |
| 1:20.1 | I fly out on a red item tomorrow night and just stressed out about the thought of putting together a new episode for this week and so I was like just do a best of episode that's the reason you hold back those episodes from the first |
| 1:35.2 | couple of years of the podcast. |
| 1:38.1 | So yeah, this week and next week will be best of episodes and we will see you then and enjoy this conversation with my friend |
| 1:46.1 | karma. Welcome to episode 35 with my guest karma. I'm Paul Gill Martin this is |
| 1:50.8 | the Metal Illness Happy Hour, |
| 1:52.5 | an hour of honesty about all the battles in our heads. |
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