Welcome to episode 656 with my return guest, Josh Papp.

I am Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness, happy hour, a place for honesty about all

the battles in our heads from.

Medically diagnosed conditions pass traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday, compulsive

negative thinking.

The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

I am not a therapist, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.

In speaking of waiting rooms, we had our second Patreon only, online support group via

Zoom.

We're doing them every Sunday for people at the $20 and above Patreon donor level and

we had about 10 people and it was awesome.

It was just as good if not better than the week before and we call it the waiting room.

And I'm super excited to be doing it next Sunday.

We do it every Sunday from at 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern time and it lasts about an

hour, an hour and a half.

Everybody gets to share, it's kind of freewheeling, safe, a lot of compassion, a lot of vulnerability

and I truly, truly love it.

And thanks to those of you who have been signing up to become monthly Patreon donors

as you know, regular listeners, the last couple of weeks, I have been putting the call

out there for financial assistance as I had to make the painful decision to, for ethical

reasons, walk away from my main source of income.

And I preach a lot on the podcast about asking for help when we need it.

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