Welcome back to the peripheral.

Today is going to be a special edition two-parter where we look into what some people call

sexual disorders, but I'm going to say up front that that term is very questionable because any mental

disorder can rear its ugly head in different ways, whether it be anxiety, depression, you name it.

Before we start, I wanted to give a shout out to Mike from pleasing terrors. I guess he was in a pretty bad

car accident on his way back from a meetup. Destroyed his car and he was injured pretty bad, but

I haven't seen him post anything on social media about it but I hope you're

doing well Mike my first guest is Anthony and he suffers major anxiety but in a very

specific way now the reason why I'm breaking this up into two parts is because I actually have two separate guests, but both of their interviews are rather long, and Anthony was able to get back with me with an update on his situation, which will be at the very end of the episode.

I have to, you know, I'm sure everybody does this feel.

Longtime listener, first time caller.

But I started listening to the peripheral this year in 2018

because I didn't know you were talking about a podcast called The Peripheral.

Oh.

Because you'd be like my Peripheral podcast, and I was like, great if you named it.

So finally you said at one point like, oh, it's the peripheral.

I'm, oh, I'm an idiot.

So I looked it up and I've binged them.

I've learned a lot about certain things.

Yeah.

And I guess the reason why I reached out to you is because you've talked to people.

Now, in hindsight, there was one.

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