Welcome to episode 638 with my guest, Dr. Scott Lyons.

This is the metal illness happy hour.

A place where honesty about all this stuff pinballing around inside our skulls from medically

diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and such old dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative

thinking.

This shows not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I am not a therapist.

So take everything I say, not with a grain of salt, but a shaker.

A shaker of salt.

And say how did Jimmy Buffett?

You fucking ridiculous old man with your 70s reference.

Let's dive into some surveys.

This is from the Struggle and a Sentin survey.

This is filled out by a woman who calls herself Dash.

She about her depression, she writes every minute off the couch feels like, mild 20 of

a marathon.

I neither signed up for nor trained to run about her anxiety.

My brain is a lit match.

My body is a crumpled pile of gas soaked rags and my consciousness is trapped waiting

for it all to go up in flames.

Abshot from her life, recovering from a rough bout of COVID and realizing pound waking,

the significant reduction in symptoms from the day before.

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