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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#706 Gender Identity, Sexuality & Anxiety - DeAnne Smith

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and writer DeAnne Smith shares their story of dealing with gender identity, sexuality, and anxiety. Look for their stand-up featured in Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda on Netflix. 


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www.DeAnneSmith.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't know if you remember but we had a guest. They're also a therapist. We had them on about two years ago.

0:09.0

Renee Johnson and they were awesome.

0:13.0

And they're a therapist based out of Los Angeles, but they're online across California

0:21.0

and they're with the Open Space Therapy collective.

0:25.0

They serve members of the LGBT-plus community and their allies.

0:30.0

And they have a podcast called My Therapist is out and it is dedicated to

0:37.8

LGBT-plus mental health. So I think you guys should check it out. Renee is in a word awesome and I know that

0:50.4

there is a substantial community of queer listeners and I think you should

1:00.2

I think you should wander over there and give it a listen.

1:04.0

You can listen to it on Apple Podcast, Spotify,

1:07.6

YouTube, wherever you get podcasts.

1:10.4

We'll put the links to all their stuff and highly recommend it and highly recommend Renee.

1:18.0

Hey, how about some theme music?

1:21.0

That feeling of being trapped in your own life with no way out. All my

1:25.0

altars have different handwriting, different affix. I'm somebody in prison. My mom

1:29.5

taught me about rape and nobody on the street before she taught me about love nobody will ever love me enough there's

1:36.0

two lies a kind pimp yes the secret shameful life at home happiness isn't the goal that you always just don't talk about and then there's the front.

1:46.3

The goal is meaning.

1:47.8

It's hard to go into the dark places.

1:50.4

I should have leaned into that feeling and gotten curious about it.

1:53.4

Recognize when your fears are driving your behaviors.

1:56.9

What you resist gets louder and run toward them.

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