YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

MFT Intern Elie El Habr works with at-risk youth in South Central Los Angeles and shares about his successes and failures in trying to reach kids who either want help or are court mandated, as he tries to keep them from going into juvenile hall or foster Elie recommends all parents read the book The Whole Brain Child by Dan Siegel. -

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Survey starting at 1:06.25 listener KateKnowsNothing: Young woman who was sexually abused as a teenager. I have to wonder if some of the attention she was seeking misplaced neglect from her father. 1:11.45 Her father sounds like a narcissist "How can you do this to me?' regarding her overdose.

I spent 40 years trying to earn the love of a father who is incapable of loving through his own narcissism, before finally learning that the thing I seek from my father does not exist in him- it's not there- it will never be there- and I'm wasting my time looking for a pearl inside a long dead clam.

KateKnowsNothing, I hope that you know that your father has some type of personality disorder, it's not your fault. It's not your fault. Hugs

I had to turn it off when the guest kept referring to the child as the client.