#703 Raised In Foster Care - Bruce W Brackett
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Bruce W. Brackett (@BWB.Positivity) is an author and artist who, along with his sisters, was taken away from his mother and put into foster care when he was a child. He shares his story of his early childhood pain, his addiction, and the surprising love that he found in his foster parents and his life as a theater kid. Look for his new book How To Breathe While Suffocating: A Story of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing my Soul.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 703 with my guest Bruce W Brackett. You're listening to the |
| 0:07.0 | medalloon as happy hour. What is this place? This place is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads, |
| 0:17.0 | from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm not a therapist and this podcast is not meant to be a substitute for professional |
| 0:30.6 | mental counseling. |
| 0:33.0 | metal pod.com is our website and the social media is at mental pod. |
| 0:40.4 | We are going to jump right into some surveys. |
| 0:42.9 | They might be a little on the short side today. |
| 0:45.0 | It's, I'm recording on the 4th of July. |
| 0:49.4 | And I got to wrap this up and get into my George Washington wig. |
| 0:56.4 | This is from the Struggel and a Sentence Survey and this is filled out by a woman who calls |
| 1:00.0 | yourself France is Bean. Those of us who were fans in Nirvana get the |
| 1:07.0 | get the reference. About she's in her 40s about her depression she writes |
| 1:13.4 | single by choice for a couple years |
| 1:16.8 | I feel good at work because I meet people every day but when I get home there is no |
| 1:21.2 | one to look forward to. My days and nights are literally a |
| 1:25.4 | ball of light that descends in a total darkness at 4.30 p.m. a snapshot from her life. |
| 1:35.0 | Lately, I'm not sure if my life has been defined by struggle with mental illness or undiagnosed autism. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm a woman and an educated professional, but my social and romantic life has been well in a word strange. |
| 1:50.0 | The other day at work I caught myself saying the following sweetly but quite tersely |
| 1:55.9 | do not talk smack about possums |
| 2:02.1 | do not talk smack about possums around me. I love them. |
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