It's mentally chill. Welcome to the show, guys. I'm Kristen, Kristen Carney. I say it like that because I am the

James Bond of mental health podcasts because I have $107 in my bank account. I don't know where I was going

with that. But anyway, welcome to the show. Today's episode I'm

very excited about because I have Paul Gilmartin on the show, who's the host of the Mental

Illness Happy Hour, the biggest, bestest podcast on mental health on the internet, tons of listeners,

tons and tons of episodes. And he is so open on today's episode, which he's very comfortable and used to being open.

That makes sense.

But I'm glad that he felt safe enough on my podcast to be so open.

He talks a lot about his childhood and the results of having his specific childhood and how it has messed him up and it's made him struggle for a long

time. But if you haven't listened to a show, make sure you listen to it. And before I let you

delve into this one, kind of like a mom who makes their kids eat their peas before they can

get to dessert. So here come the peas. If you enjoy the show or

if you listen every now and then and are getting something out of it, it would be amazing for you to

donate at least a dollar a month. You have no idea how big that dollar feels to me. So please do it.

And I understand the most difficult part of donating,

I think, is the actual process of going and doing it, especially when you're depressed,

because I know you can barely lift your spoon to eat your cereal, let alone go get your credit

card information and enter it into a website and go to the site and type in

your mail or your billing address all that kind of bullshit i get it but it's actually really easy

and really quick and there's a lot of stuff on the patreon page that you can benefit from so please

don't hesitate to go on there you have no idea it really will make a huge difference for me so anyway

those are the peas. Not too

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