Welcome to episode 362 with my guest, Yvonne Y. I'm Paul Gilmart and this is the Metal

Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically

diagnosed conditions, past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative

thinking. This shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.

Not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't

suck. The show is part anonymous listener confessions filled out via surveys and then

the other half of the show is a conversation or interview with a guest.

I made fun of, well first of all, I've shared with you guys that I've been doing this

thing at night before I go to bed where I do not crave ice cream at all during the day.

I don't even think about it, but for some reason right before I go to bed, I pretty much

the last last nine months have been eating ice cream because it just feels like a compulsion

and sometimes I can't sleep unless I get up and have a pint of ice cream. I would always

have a pint, one time it was a pint. I was talking on last week's episode or two weeks

ago, I don't remember how long ago, and I was making fun of Sedona and crystals in that

whole kind of stereotype. A listener named Roe wrote to me and she said, you know, I used

to think that crystals were bullshit as well, but could I send you some? I always talk

about being open-minded on the show, sure, send me some. And so she picked out, you know,

one of them is a birth stone, et cetera, et cetera, and she sent them to me. And I'm not

kidding you. I opened up the package at like, I don't know, I'm gonna say 10 o'clock at

night. It was the first night in memory that I was like, I don't feel like eating ice cream

tonight. Was it those fucking crystals? And that was two nights ago, last night, I felt

a little bit of the urge, but I didn't. So what I'm saying is, Roe, your shitty crystals

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