Welcome to episode 283 with my guest Julie L. I'm Paul Gilmarton. This is the metal illness

happy hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed

conditions, past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. I'm not

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

The website for this show is mentalpod.com. Go there, check it out. You can fill out surveys.

Maybe we'll read your survey on the show. You can browse the forum. You can join the forum

and post in there. You can read blogs or guest blogs. You can donate to the show. All kinds

of stuff at the website could go, so go check it out. You can also follow me on Twitter

at mental pod. And I want to remind you that I'm coming to Oakland, July 20th and 21st

for two shows. I'm recording Jamie DeWolf and Glenn Washington. Glenn is the host of

Snap Judgment, the podcast Snap Judgment. And Jamie is also a guest on it quite frequently.

And that is being sponsored by East Bay Express. So if you just go to the East Bay Express

website, which I guess is East Bay Express.com, you can find more information there.

But I will put a link on the website for this episode, a link to buy tickets. I wanted

to mention something that I can't remember what it is. So this is maybe the second week

of taking Adderall and so far, so far, so good. I have no desire to take any more of

it. I'm not even taking the higher dose that I could if I if I wanted to. And that

desire at four o'clock in the afternoon to just crawl into bed and shut the world out

is not there. And it's really nice. And ironically, my anxiety is lower, especially when I play

hockey a lot of times I get anxious about the outcome of the game. And I've noticed

that I don't really have that. So far, so far, so good. I want to read a couple of surveys

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