Sidewalk Confessionals Jeremy Cruz, Caleb Young

Continuing the theme from last week, Caleb is interviewing me about my childhood traumas and the things that’ve stuck with me. I talk about early memories, broken relationships, and my struggle with depression. Small trigger warning, I talk about suicide at the end so if that’s uncomfortable for you, stop listening after Caleb accepts not being able to make me cry. As always, happy listening and have a nice day.

As a follow up to last week’s episode, Caleb decided that it’d be helpful to share his personal experiences being emotional abused as a kid. We talk about his earlier family life, childhood traumas, and how those experiences have affected him today. Caleb really had to be vulnerable to answer these questions on the podcast, because this isn’t a topic he enjoys talking about. So as a way to show some solidarity and demonstrate how seemingly insignificant events (at least, relative to what Caleb experienced) can cause lasting traumas, Caleb will be putting me in the same, very uncomfortable position next week.

In response to some recent and frankly f****d up events in my and Caleb’s lives, we’re talking about gaslighting. This is not strictly a mental health episode, but gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse. But, if that isn’t quite your thing and you would rather hear me make a fool of myself, skip to 25:00 minutes in.

This is a bit of a strange story that i wrote. As the title implies, it has a plot twist at the end, so…spoiler alert. Also, let me know if you want episodes 1-13 posted of youtube as blank video with the podcast audio over them by commenting on episode 22. Thanks for listening, and have a nice day.

In lieu of rushing to finish a short story in time for this episode, I decided to give you guys an update on the progress of the new studio. I also talk a little bit about building my own audio equipment and how to get started with electronics. I trash talk Arduino a little bit, as well. And a short rand about an external hard drive I bought to backup my data.

This week we decided not to talk about mental health directly, but instead discuss medical marijuana since it’s so popular as a treatment for mental heath issues. We aren’t here to discuss politics, or tell you to go light one up, only to offer some talking points on the subject. I will post an accompanying article on the website at some point this year.