A tribute/re-airing for Paul’s friend Charlie who passed away last week after years of battling his demons. Charlie led an astoundingly painful life especially in regard to his mother (schizophrenia, depression), father (workaholic, hoarder), and sister (drug addict). He describes his descent into drugs (crack), emotionally damaged women and violence before finding the key to understanding his behavior.
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Episode Transcript:
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Rachel C
04/22/2023 at 6:01 pmWhat a beautiful and sad episode, Paul. Thank you for sharing and so sorry you lost your friend. Was listening to this walking round the supermarket and it stopped me in my tracks… So powerful. Thank you.
Indigo E
04/24/2023 at 3:26 pmThis episode was great, Charlie seems like a beautiful person and his life was important and I’m glad he got to share some of it with the world through the podcast.
Sam
05/24/2023 at 5:58 amDear Paul,
i just finished this very special episode. My name ist Sam (Samira) and i´m from Germany (Kiel), i´m 35 years old.
First of all i want to say that i´m really sorry for your loss, i was very moved by this Episode. Thank you for sharing this Audio again, because i just recently started to listen to your Podcast, so who knows if i would have listen to this “old” one.
I was born in 1987 in eastgermany and in 1989 after the fall of the Wall me and my mother moved to westgermany (to my granny). I was neglected as a child – big time, had no father (still dont know him or his name). Like Charlie at the age of 5 i was walking around by myself and sometimes bad things happens to a child…
Till i became older i was a very shy child, not good in school, too quite, too different, My Mom loved my (thats what my Granny told me when i was an adult) but she didnt care, i didnt fit cause i guess she had other lifeplans.
Like me my mom was neglected as a child. Her mother flied to westgermany and her granny cared for her. My moms father was kicked out of the house because of alcohol and barfights every weekend – so she was kind of all alone, no mother and no father and why do better then them?
When i was young (around 6-7 y. old) my mom always had horrible boyfriends, they would beat her up infront of me, kick her to the ground, pull her on the foot and so on… it was bad.
Át that time i just thought: I take a knife and stab him in the back, but i was too scared, too shy and too quite.
One day i told her: please, no more men.
Couple of weeks later i came home and another on visited her bed. He gave me 50 Mark (now ca. 25Euros) to go to McDonalds. He later became the dad of my brother, who is 8 years younger than me.
After my brother was born, she finally cared… for him, not me.
Now my mother is a different person, thank god (i am a atheist)! She cares, she loves me and whenever something is wrong i can talk to her – I like this version of her.
I do work as a medical assistent (vascular surgery) and i have a trainee (21 y old) and she lives with schizophrenia (genetically) and depression (really bad childhood, still very bad parents). She is the sweetest person you can imagine and i regularly tell her about your podcast and what i take away from all this episodes.
Today i told her, that everytime her mother is horrible, mean etc. to her, its not about her, its because she is dissatisfied with herself and want to take it out on her … i´ve learned that from Charlie.
what i wanna say is…. thank you for sharing all this stories and thank your for helping around the globe.
I guess i am a very empathic person but because of you i can do better and get a better understanding of the difficulties of all this diseases.
Much love,
(and sorry for my bad english)
Samira