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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#723 Toxic Productivity - Therapist Israa Nasir

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Israa Nasir is a therapist and the founder of Well Guide, a digital wellness platform making therapy tools accessible to everyone. She discusses red flags and green flags in terms of mental health and processes for reflection on how to live a life true to who you are. Look for hew new book, Toxic Productivity.


Buy Israa’s New Book: TOXIC PRODUCTIVITY: Reclaim Your Time and Emotional Energy in a World That Always Demands More

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

With the $5 meal deal at McDonald's, you pick a McDouble or a McChicken, then get a small fry, a small drink, and a four-piece McNuggets.

0:08.8

That's a lot of McDonald's for not a lot of money.

0:12.4

Price and participation may vary for a limited time only.

0:15.1

Welcome to episode 723 with my guest, Israel Nasir.

0:20.2

If you're a first-time listener, this is a place for honesty about all the

0:24.3

battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction,

0:29.9

to everyday compulsive negative thinking. And this show's not meant to be a substitute for

0:34.8

professional mental counseling. I am not a therapist.

0:37.9

You have been warned.

0:40.8

And my dog's name is Gracie.

0:42.8

That's it.

0:43.4

That's all the important shit that you need to know.

0:48.4

A story that I forgot to tell last week when I eulogized. I don't know what the right verb would be,

0:58.2

but talked about my friend Jimmy, who died about 10 days ago. And there's so many stories

1:05.6

that I wanted to tell about him. And my favorite story about him, and he shared this story with me. We were in the car.

1:14.4

I don't know. It was about a month ago. And he was, this was, I don't know, he's telling a story

1:22.2

that took place 20 years ago. And he had justed from heroin. He was in a rehab.

1:28.7

And wherever Jimmy was, he would annoy himself, the mayor of it, whether it was in the day

1:36.2

room at a jail or, you know, Thanksgiving dinner.

1:42.9

And he's in, now mind you, five days off of heroin.

1:49.0

And he's in this rehab.

1:50.5

And he's already just taken charge.

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