Welcome to episode 686 with my guest

Swami Gopulsome.

Paul Gil Martin.

You are listening to the mental illness, happy hour,

a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.

I am not a therapist and this is not meant to be a

substitute for professional mental counseling. The website. I tried to make that dramatic the website for this show.

There's metal pod.com,

metal pod also the social media handles

you can follow us at. We've got some good surveys on this

week's episode. So often the surveys that people fill out in a great interview with

Swami about a topic that we don't talk about very often. But some interesting

surveys and very often in the surveys, it's people describing things that have

happened to them.

And every once in a while, we will get surveys where people described where they were abusive and usually own their own behavior. And we've got a couple of those which I always

while I don't enjoy hearing that people have been abusive

I do enjoy hearing people own their stuff. It's such a big part of growing into the person that we want to be.

This that we want to be.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey filled out by Emma and she writes, I know this is petty, but I'm feeling petty, which to be honest, I'm feeling insecure.

This probably has absolutely nothing to do with you, but it's where I'm at right now.

Do you care about us, your listeners?

I know you don't know us and can't barely, can't bear

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