Welcome to episode 756 with my guest Kayla Hurt.

If you're new to the podcast, I hope you find this podcast to be a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads.

I'm not a therapist in this podcast, probably pretty obvious, but this podcast is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I like to think of myself as the cheerleader for the football team, and the football team

are the therapists and social workers and psychiatrists and all the people out there on the

front lines doing it day in and day out.

I bet there's so many times, you know, if you're a regular listener to the podcast,

you know that there are sometimes really fucked up dark jokes that I make about things

that are really heavy.

And that's got to be hard being a clinician and having that joke in your head and not being

able to say it.

I suppose you wait until you get a break and then you share it with a coworker who then

report to you and you get fired.

This is from the struggle in a sentence,

and this is filled out by a woman who calls herself Kennedy,

and about her depression, she writes,

I miss everything all at once.

And that certainly,

that certainly covers it about her anxiety. I doing everything i can but it's not even

a fraction of everything i should be doing the shifting amorphous list of criteria is just out of reach

each mistake is written on me in sharpie. Ooh, that's good.

And about experiencing sexual bias.

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