Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it

out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay

but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a

psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.

So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 106 I am your

host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from southern California and the author of the

Hardcore Self-Help book series and today we have an interview. So the interview is with

Sakina. She is the Muslim hippie on Twitter and she's a really interesting

person. So this is an interview about a person who suffers from severe mental health issues a variety of conditions

which she talks about in the interview and also somebody who

Serves as an advocate and does talks and engages with people online to try to support

other people with mental illness to reduce stigma related to mental illness and all sorts of things like that.

Now this is an interesting interview because after we did the interview, it went really well and

I really like the interview actually, but afterward she emailed me and asked, you know,

can we do it over? and the reason for that is

she was recently coming off an episode I believe a manic episode and you'll

hear in the interview that you know her speech was somewhat pressured which

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