Welcome to episode 103 with my guest Emily Gordon.

I'm Paul Gilmarton.

This is the mental illness happy hour.

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

and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This 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 that doesn't suck.

The website for the show is mentalpod.com.

There's all kinds of stuff there that's newsletter you can sign up for.

There's a forum you can post in.

There are surveys you can take, about a half dozen different surveys.

I'd like to read those survey responses on the show.

You can also support the show in various ways at the website.

What do I want to mention?

There's a really, really important bill in Congress right now called the Shield Act.

I would love it if you guys would call your Congress person and people and tell them that

you support the Shield Act.

There is a website called eff.org slash shield that you can find out who your Congress people

are, what the phone number is, or you can just email them if you don't want to call.

That calling is generally a little more persuasive because they know that people are taking a little

more time out to do that, so they must feel a little more strongly about it.

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