Episode 378 - Nick Middaugh

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Nick has a career of over a decade’s worth of civil service spanning fire, corrections, and public safety, and he is also a survivor of CSA, more commonly known as Childhood Sexual Abuse.

-Male sexual trauma is seen as a common issue that goes relatively ignored within American society. The suspected ratio of boys who experience some form of sexual abuse varies from one in six to as high as one in four by the age of eighteen.

-Despite society's acknowledgement of the prevalence of this issue, the average length of time between male sexual abuse and disclosure is twenty years, not accounting for abuses that never get reported.

-Childhood Sexual Abuse is a form of trauma, and while these childhood trauma statistics were not CSA specific, they are certainly related and may display some of the predispositions male CSA survivors encounter: victims of childhood trauma are; 2.4 times as likely to experience ongoing anxiety, 3.6 times as likely to be depressed, 7.2 times as likely to become alcoholic, and 11.1 times as likely to become intravenous drug users.

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody? We are back. Another episode for you this morning.
0:06.7	I try to do this when there is a potentially sensitive nature of the topic. So I'm going to give a little bit of a spoiler alert.
0:15.2	Today's episode is largely based around somebody's abuse, a man named Nick Midaw to be specific.
0:24.4	If you are somebody that experienced their own abuse
0:28.3	or is triggered by somebody talking about that,
0:30.1	use the episode with caution.
0:32.3	Not saying avoid it, it's just a really heavy topic
0:35.0	and I know that it has its hooks in some people and can
0:38.1	elicit reactions from some people that they may not want to relive on their own. They do a better
0:44.3	job if they're doing that with more of a little guided process through counseling and therapy.
0:49.2	So again, today's episode is largely about Nick's experience and journey through that and what he has done after that.
0:57.8	And I will leave it at that.
0:59.5	So before we get into it, though, let's pay the bills real fast.
1:03.7	Stick with me.
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