What's your alternative? You wake up. It's February 28th. You remember, you remember your son.

You remember that he was murdered?

And you get depressed and you sit on social media and you flip through Instagram, Facebook.

You see people acting perfect, looking perfect.

You get jealous. You say, why can't I have that? Why can't I have my son?

Why can't I have a nice marriage like I see on Facebook? You get pissed off. That's what happens.

Choose. Josh, choose. Will you redeem that day?

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast episode number 162. Thanks for watching and

listening. We answer, well, I say we, I answer your questions. That's what the format of this podcast

is. Email me. GrangerSmithPodcast at gmail.com. And I'll just talk about it in long form.

And you might see a short form of that on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok. But in this place

right here, wherever you are, whatever, whatever you're using to listen to this, maybe it's Spotify

or Apple podcast or YouTube, we're going to just going to talk about it in a long form. So I'm

going to get right to it. The first question, subject line says, mental drained parenthesis urgent.

Hey, Granger. My name is Matthew. I'm 20 years old. I'm from North Carolina. Just start listening

to the podcast. I appreciate everything you do for us. I send you the email because I struggle

with anxiety and depression and keep a relationship and keeping a relationship because of my past and

my mental state, me and my ex recently broke up because I was overwhelmed. And or excuse me,

because I overwhelmed her and overreacted, which caused me to overthink and lash out. And she

said she wasn't very happy with herself. And she is mentally drained. And she was having a

hard time focusing on college, her friends. And she keeps trying to make me happy. What she says,

we were happy together, but we weren't happy with ourselves. She thinks it's best that we just

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