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#641 A "Holy Sh*t" Childhood - Kristine Kimmel

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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The Shame of Childhood Neglect

"I spent most of my adult life wanting to fit in a way that people wouldn't know like that I was working class too" "We can't really punish ourselves for things that we weren't even really where we were doing at the time you know and it's also just a very normal response to the situation" 'When it's us I think we have the added weight of we don't want to wander around in this world with somebody thinking pathetically of us' "'A lot of this is stuff that you can't control because it's happened to us when we were children but it's still for me like embarrassing there's shame," she says.

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