Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

This is a soul fire production. Oh, what are you drinking? I wanted you to read what it says. Can you

read it? Routy mermaid. Routy mermaid. And you and I were having a little right before we went on about about what we were going to do today. And you said today was about mental health. And this is Oshwaganda and Blackberry. So I am right on point for mental health. Actually, that's not what I said.

I said mental illness.

Oh, well, okay.

Ashwaganda might not help with mental illness, but.

Yeah, because I even had up the definition of flight of ideas.

Do you know what flight of ideas means?

No. Okay. In psychological terms, it's something used to help diagnose schizophrenia or bipolar

disorder. It's when somebody goes from one thought to another thought really quickly without any

sort of intervention.

Like they're talking about a bug on a tree and they end up talking about making your bed.

And there's no connection between the two.

Okay.

So I was going to say, oh, I feel like we do that all the time.

Well, the truth is that there is a bug sitting on my window right now,

and I just made my bed.

So there actually is a connection between bug on a flying by and making my bed.

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