Welcome to episode 230 with my guest Derek Block.

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 shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

I'm not a doctor.

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 was mental pod.com.

Go there, check it out.

There's a forum.

You can take surveys and share things about your lives with us.

You can support the show financially there.

You can read blogs, all kinds of stuff.

You know there was another shooting this week, as everybody knows in South Carolina.

I don't even know what to say because it's just who knows what drives somebody to do

something like that.

But it bums me out when people focus, when people try to make it solely a gun issue because

I think primarily it's a mental health issue.

Anyway, that's my take on it.

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