Do not confuse this with treatment or mental health advice or direction.

Nothing on this podcast is made to supplement or supersede the relationship and direction of your mental health caretakers.

Although David Kozlowski is a licensed marriage and family therapist,

he is not functioning as a certified mental health professional in this environment.

But same applies to any professionals who may appear on the Light the Fight podcast.

Hey, welcome everybody to Light the Fight podcast. I am David. And unfortunately, or fortunately for some of you, I don't have anything just silly or somewhat comical or just stupid to say to start the podcast.

But in my defense, it's because I've been really

under the weather the past few weeks. I don't want to get into it. I can tell you guys that it's not

COVID. It's not COVID related. It has to do with my brain, my nervous system, and trying to get figured out.

So as right now, I don't have all the answers.

But I've been out of work for the past couple weeks.

So this is my first chance in the past couple weeks that I've been able to talk about

feelings and personal relationships and all the things that I usually talk about.

So I don't know how long I'm going to last.

I'm choking on my words already.

I don't know how long I'm going to last.

I apologize ahead of time.

If I say something and more than usual, it doesn't make sense. It's because legitimately my brain is my

problem right now and I've had problems throughout my whole entire life with brain issues,

mostly stemming from head traumas, concussions. I was in a coma for almost two days in my 20s,

and I've had a lot of other stuff,

speech impediments because of brain problems.

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