Welcome to episode 662 with my guest Ruth Golden.

Paul Gilmarten, you're listening to the Mental Illness Happy Hour, which is 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.

The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I am not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office, more like a waiting room.

In speaking of waiting room, the support group online zoom hangout, whatever you want to call

that we do on Sunday afternoons had another great one this last Sunday, and we talked about

having narcissists in our lives and how to kind of navigate that and run flags to look for,

and why sometimes we're drawn to them.

If you've never heard the interview that I did with Ramani Dervasala,

she is an expert on narcissists, and I can't remember the name of the book that she wrote,

but she was a great guest, and a lot of people really, really like that episode.

Still need financial help. As much as I hate saying this every week, I have to keep saying it,

because for those of you that haven't listened the last two months, I had to make an ethical

decision to walk away from the primary source of income for this podcast. It just didn't feel

right to me to continue doing it, and it has left the podcast in a financial free fall.

I'm trying to encourage people to help out financially in whatever way they can, whether it's a

one-time donation, through PayPal or Venmo, or recurring monthly donation through PayPal,

or hopefully Patreon, because then you can qualify for some goodies. One of those is,

if you're at the $20 a month subscriber level on Patreon, you get to be a part of the waiting room

online hangout that we do every Sunday, and we just added a discord server to it.

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