Welcome to episode 101 with my guest, Stephanie Wilder Taylor, I'm Paul Gilmarten.

This is the mental illness happy hour, 90 minutes actually closer to two hours today.

90 minutes of honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions

and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

The show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling, it's not

a doctor's office.

It's more like a waiting room where we hold your hand and let you cry and then we comfort

you with a sweet sweet dip joke. The website for this show is mentalpod.com, mental pod is also the

Twitter name you can follow me at. When I want to match, oh those of you that live in Portland,

I'm coming to Portland to do the Bridgetown Comedy Festival April 18th through the 21st.

So I'll be doing my satirical character up there and I might even be doing a live mental illness happy

hour episode, but I'm not I'm not sure kind of depends on what guests are available and what

venues are available. Could that be more more kind of not firm what I just said?

And I also might be in any other city around the country at some point in the future.

I've been getting emails from some of you guys asking if we could do a little better job of

tagging each of the episodes, which makes total sense to me because I know some of you are looking

for episodes on specific subjects like bipolar one or you know sexual abuse or schizophrenia,

etc. I could use your help on that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a thread in

the forum called tag the episodes. And then if you guys would create threads for each episode

and then you can kind of put what you think the the six major tags should be for for that episode.

I hope that doesn't sound too confusing. I'm a little confused. The other thing I want to give

a shout out to is if you're a war veteran and you live in the LA area and you'd like to be a guest

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