A replay from the first year of the podcast (2011). Paul sat down with his support group friend; a former fugitive, ex-con drug dealer, heroin addict 60’s hippie, divorced four times, what’s not to love? There were so many stories we made this our first two-parter. Part 2 next week.
Paul reads submissions from listeners about the challenges in their lives.
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Paul’s support group friend shares about her experiences as a black woman in America, her addiction to unavailable men, the wreckage of her acting out sexually and being a child in Atlanta during the Atlanta child murders.
Paul’s friend and fellow comedian/podcaster (Learning Not To Swear) returns to talk about George Floyd’s murder, systemic racism, the police, looting, being a black father in America and the pandemic.
The board-certified psychiatrist answers questions about personality disorders, medication, problems in the mental health system and mental health in the black community.
The psychiatrist shares her experience in deciding when it’s appropriate to prescribe meds, diagnosing ADD/ADHD, the difference between role and identify, being Korean-American and children who want to transition.
The licensed therapist @KatieVernoy returns to answers listener’s questions about a variety of topics but mostly about ways to handle the pandemic emotionally and mentally.
The graphic novelist (Rx) opens up about her battles with Bipolar I, being involuntarily committed, and having been an ad account executive creating a campaign for the very pill she was taking, participating in the “commercialization of my own suffering.”