Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode we have back on the show, my close personal friend and repeat guest,

mostly on the Patreon I think in a couple episodes publicly.

David Isonangl from the YouTube channel No Chaser.

He's been on I think the last public episode you were on was in regards to alcoholism and

recovery surrounding addiction which a lot of people resonated with and now I'm having

you back on to kind of have a broader discussion of mental health and mental health issues,

some of which dovetail obviously with your experiences of addiction but just in and of

themselves are an issue that you've struggled with and I've struggled with that people

out there listening have almost certainly struggled with or know people right now in

their lives who are struggling with some form of mental illness.

So of course when we're talking about an issue like this, I just want to launch a little

preface by saying neither David or I are medical experts.

We're going to be talking about our own experiences.

We're going to be examining those experiences with the goal of hopefully letting people

out there who are struggling with this stuff know that they're not alone first and foremost

and hopefully saying things that will resonate with people who have or are currently going

through it.

But as always if you have a specific mental health issue definitely talk to medical professionals

and get help on your specific problem and don't take anything that we're saying here

tonight as medical advice for you because we are not medical experts and we're not doing

that.

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