Welcome to episode 227 with my guest Cassie Snyder.

I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.

A place for honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions,

past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This show is now meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

It's not a doctor's office, I'm not a therapist, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't

suck.

The website for this show is mentalpod.com, go there, check it out, read the forums, post

their, read blogs, guest blogs, fill out a survey so we can get to know you, read how other

people filled out surveys, or financially support the show.

All those things you can do at the website.

You can also follow me on Twitter at, oh, who gives a shit.

That's what it should be at, oh, God, who gives a shit.

Let's get to some surveys.

This is filled out by, these are all from the struggle and the sentence survey.

And this is filled out by a guy who calls himself Rack's dad about his alcoholism, hoping

the hockey game goes into overtime so I can have another drink.

Bananas gives us a snapshot from her life and her co-dependency.

She writes, manipulating my ex-boyfriend, a heroin addict at the time to come over to my

house by telling him he left $20 in my car.

Maybe if he comes over, he'll see that he wants me again.

I'm so desperate that I use his addiction to feed my own.

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