Nick has a career of over a decade’s worth of civil service spanning fire, corrections, and public safety, and he is also a survivor of CSA, more commonly known as Childhood Sexual Abuse. -Male sexual trauma is seen as a common issue that goes relatively ignored within American society. The suspected ratio of boys who experience some form of sexual abuse varies from one in six to as high as one in four by the age of eighteen. -Despite society's acknowledgement of the prevalence of this issue, the average length of time between male sexual abuse and disclosure is twenty years, not accounting for abuses that never get reported. -Childhood Sexual Abuse is a form of trauma, and while these childhood trauma statistics were not CSA specific, they are certainly related and may display some of the predispositions male CSA survivors encounter: victims of childhood trauma are; 2.4 times as likely to experience ongoing anxiety, 3.6 times as likely to be depressed, 7.2 times as likely to become alcoholic, and 11.1 times as likely to become intravenous drug users. https://www.nickmiddaugh.com/ Today's Sponsors: Montana Knife Company: https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/ LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/CLEAREDHOT
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
What's going on, everybody? We are back. Another episode for you this morning. I try to do this when there is a potentially sensitive nature of the topic, so I'm going to give a little bit of a spoiler alert. Today's episode is largely based around somebody's abuse, a man named Nick Middaw, to be specific. If you are somebody that...
experience their own abuse or is triggered by somebody talking about that, use the episode with caution. Not saying avoid it. It's just a really heavy topic. And I know that it has its hooks in some people and can elicit reactions from some people that they may not want to relive on their own.
They do a better job if they're doing that with more of a little guided process through counseling and therapy. So... Again, today's episode is largely about Nick's experience and journey through that and what he has done after that. And I will leave it at that. So before we get into it, though, let's pay the bills real fast. Stick with me.
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Chapter 2: How does Nick Middaugh's childhood trauma affect him?
Yeah. An adult on paper. I look back at that fucking hilarious.
Right.
But hey, I could join the military, get issued a machine gun, which actually I'm pretty thankful for. That was pretty awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's important.
So yeah, man, I mean, I'd just be in class and I'd be like, so, and also part of the story is like, I was born with degenerative hearing loss and tinnitus and You were born with tinnitus? Yeah, I was born with it. It's the first I've heard of that. That sucks. Yeah. Yeah. Due to the, um, it was like nerve damage during childbirth or whatever. Um, I wear hearing aids, they're called lyrics.
Um, and they, they sit next to your eardrum. Can't see them. It enables me to hear. But, um, Can you Bluetooth to your phone? No, I can't.
But there's hearing aids out there where you can. That'd be dope. You could listen to music and people would think you're listening to them. Shit.
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Chapter 3: What challenges do male survivors of childhood sexual abuse face?
Yeah. No. Um, when I get annoyed with my kids, I just shut them off. I just, not really, but it's a method. If I really want to get some good sleep, I do it with my hearing aids off.
How much can you hear without your hearing aids?
Um, at this stage of the game, because it's a continual loss, um, I'm not sure what the actual reading was. Probably not much. Yeah, not good. Like 50%.
You said it's right up against the eardrum? Yeah. Do you put them in there or does a doctor? I put them in.
You know, Michael, why don't you pull up Lyric hearing aids just so people can see them because they're actually really cool.
How do Michiganians spell Lyric?
Lyric. L-Y-R-I-C-H-I-N-G.
Michael, why does our goddamn screen do that? I don't know. It's really annoying though. There it is right there. Boom. Holy cow. It just kind of looks like a shooting ear pro. Yeah. Out of sight, out of mind. Around the clock. Yep. Waterproof, I'm assuming?
No. So the only thing I can't do is swim underwater.
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