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What Does Andy Want from His Chaotic Life?

Tammy Nelson
2 min readJul 27, 2021

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What does it mean to live in chaos? Are some people just more prone to self-sabotage?

If you haven’t caught it yet, I am the first guest on the kick-off episode of Andy Dick’s new podcast, aDiCKted. In each episode, he tries to deal with an aspect of his crazy life and promises he is there to take a good hard look at his addictions. If you don’t know Andy Dick, he is an actor and comedian well known for his celebrity roast appearances on MTV.

In episode one, we tackle Andy’s tumultuous sex life, I try to get Andy to open up about his dysfunctional relationships, his compulsive sexual behaviors, his codependency, and his dangerous search for love in all the wrong places.

We began with his infidelity and bounced from his story of one bad relationship to another. It is a rough ride. Hold on.

I try to get him to take a deep dive into his psyche. It’s hard to know if he keeps up the act of denial for the audience or if he’s really so attached to his chaos that he can’t let it go.

Why are some people addicted to a life of abusive relationships, of sabotaging their success? Why do some people seem to have everything going for them and then smash it to pieces, only to have to start again? Is it really true that they don’t see what they’re doing? Why do they look like they like…

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Tammy Nelson
Tammy Nelson

Written by Tammy Nelson

Dr Tammy Nelson is a Sex and Couples Therapist, a TEDx speaker, host of The Trouble with Sex podcast and author of six books including Open Monogamy.

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