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Hello, lovely Patreon supporters of the podcast. This is another bonus episode. And I want to preface it by saying that at times on my show and at times on this bonus episode portion of my show.

I will sometimes mention people's names

like certain political leaders.

And I think I've tried to be very clear

about the fact that I am not taking on any kind of political messaging by doing that.

I'm really trying to highlight personalities and methods of influence and control and things

that feel similar to the work that I've been doing.

There just happened to be some people out there in the public eye

who do things that are more consistent with a lot of the kinds of personalities

I have been dealing with and studying for many years. So, this is not to tell

you how to vote. And this is not to tell you what to believe socially and politically. I'm just

highlighting certain personality styles and leadership styles. Okay, with that disclaimer, I want to be able to talk about information overload.

A lot of people have been talking about that there's so much happening all over the world,

that it is easy, actually, to get overwhelmed and it's easy then to tune out what's happening around you. There was someone who I was talking

to recently who came up to me. I don't remember where I was, I think, standing in line at the

pharmacy, who just looked overwhelmed and she then turned to me. I guess she thought I'd be

someone who would want to hear about her troubles. And it happens a lot, I think, when you're a therapist. Whether people know you're a

therapist or not, you just might have that kind of face. And she just said, oh, there's just,

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