Welcome to episode 685 with my guest Dr. David Kabushan. My name is Paul. How are you?

If you're new to the mental illness happy hour, this is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.

A reminder I'm not a therapist and the show's not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

I'm a peer.

What do you need to know, huh?

We've been on the air for 13 years, something like that.

Half of the podcast is an interview, the other half are surveys that have been filled out

by people anonymously online and God I've learned so much in the last 13 years through well the interviews obviously but the surveys especially so if you've

never taken our surveys go to our website metal pod dot com and consider

filling out a survey.

We, maybe we'll read it on the show,

or maybe we'll read it on the Patreon website.

Our Patreon

URL is Patreon.com slash mental pod and all kinds of different rewards at different tears on there. We've got a Sunday afternoon hang out support group on Sundays. It's a really, really cool group of people and a lot of love support and vulnerability and recovery there.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself Boop Scoop and she asks how were you able to eliminate white flour and sugar,

and in parentheses, I'm guessing maybe dairy too.

No, I've not given up dairy.

I've lowered it, but I'm seeing a

gastrointestinal antarologist next month for gut issues I've had my whole life and I'm

going to ask about doing an elimination diet I think this will even involve giving up coffee for a little

while. I want to do this to see if food is causing these issues, but I have a

serious sweet tooth. Did you go through, I like how my tooth whistled

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