Welcome back to the peripheral.

Sorry about the delay and release of this episode.

Who knew that August would be so busy for me?

I'm hoping to put out several episodes before the end of the month,

so I'll make up for lost time for everybody. On today's episode, as promised, I'm going back

to a mental health issue. This episode is comparing the differences between grief and depression.

I am joined by Anne, who suffers a loss that no parent should ever have to go through.

I don't know how to set this story up, so I'm going to go ahead and let Anne tell her story.

So where are you from?

Texas, Plano, north of Dallas.

Awesome.

I don't know if you're still doing mental illness, but boy, that can mess you up.

Mental illness is going to be an ongoing thing.

I listened to the newest one this morning.

It was really good. Well, thank you. I like that. I forget her name. I listened to the newest one this morning. It was really good.

Well, thank you. I like that. I forget her name. I can't remember names.

Tiffany. Yeah, yeah. She's really interesting because some of the things that she talked about I really relate to.

And some of the things my life is totally totally different

well that's yeah and that's what the discussion's all about right right right right yeah yeah

I wasn't really sure what you wanted me to exactly what you wanted me to talk about but uh I can

just tell tell you about my story and yeah just see go there. Well, when I was a kid, I was, I lived in

several different places in the South, so I'm not really from quote unquote Texas, but I was always

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