Dr. Chris Palmer
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2,040 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3 Jul
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But the real reason I ended up becoming a psychiatrist is because of my mother.
who, you know, I'm from a family of eight kids.
And when my mom was in her early 40s, she had been relatively quote-unquote normal up until then.
Raising a family, helping my father run his business, just living a normal middle-class life in the Midwest.
A series of events happened in her family that were ridiculously stressful and put a tremendous burden on her.
And she had what started as what she called a nervous breakdown that quickly turned into depression and suicidality and then pretty quickly turned into psychotic symptoms.
And she was hospitalized.
She was medicated.
She was getting psychotherapy.
She was getting all of the treatment that the mental health field had to offer.
None of it worked.
And she ended up living the rest of her life with a chronic psychotic disorder.
And it ruined her life.
It's not an understatement.
She lost custody of
All of her eight kids, I went to live with her for a while.
We end up homeless together for a while.
I mean, it was a nightmare.
But she loses custody of her kids.
She loses her business.
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