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Mental Illness Happy Hour

#738 Best Of: Jeanie Bergen - Parentless at 3

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

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

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

This Best Of episode was originally recorded and aired in 2015. Jeanie, a writer, talks about being parentless at 3 and the complex relationship with her mentally disabled sister whom she now has guardianship of. She and Paul bond over suicidal thoughts, isolating and much much more

For more about Jeanie's writing https://scriptanatomy.com/jeanie-bergen/

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Transcript

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0:52.7

Welcome to episode 738, a best of episode with Jeannie Bergen.

0:58.5

This is one of my favorite episodes.

1:01.1

It's so touching and she goes so deep.

1:06.1

Yeah, we recorded this back in 2015 and there's some some good surveys in it there's always good surveys

1:15.6

in every episode but there's a couple reasons why i'm i'm doing a best of it not that i owe you an

1:21.8

explanation because god knows given our history you don't deserve one the surveys people aren't filling out the surveys at the

1:34.6

rate that they used to and um it's there aren't quite enough to go in the regular podcast and then on the Patreon where people

1:48.8

get bonus surveys. So there's only going to be, well, you'll get the surveys that were

1:53.4

originally on this episode. Am I over explaining too much? Maybe I'm explaining just the

2:00.3

right amount. Anyway, I explaining just the right amount.

2:09.9

Anyway, I've just been under some stress lately and just, I don't know how to describe it,

2:17.9

but when I was stressing out the other night, putting the show together.

2:22.3

And when I thought, why don't I just do a best of episode? And then that takes care of the lack of surveys.

2:26.5

And I felt some relief.

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