Welcome to Proper Mental episode 83 with Marise Gaughan, an author and comedian extraordinaire.
Marise was 23 when her Dad died by suicide. She dealt with his death, and everything that led to it, by leaving Dublin and heading to Amsterdam and then L.A, leaving a trail of self-destruction in her wake.
Her struggle with grief and mental ill health would eventually lead her to AA and a psych ward in California where she would started to unpack everything that happened and she ended up writing it all down in her recently published memoir, Trouble.
Marise and I chat about writing down her darkest moments and putting them out in to the world. We chat about suicide, addiction, shame, sobriety and American hospitals.
Marise is well known for her honesty, no matter how challenging the subject, and that’s exactly what you get here. We cover a lot of big topics!
When I read her book, I couldn’t put it down and got through it in just a few days so it was a real pleasure to hear Marise’s story first hand.
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marise gaughan (comedian extraordinaire)
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