Welcome to episode 107 with my guest, Sarah Benincasa, I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the

metal illness happy hour, 90 minutes of honesty about all the battles in our heads for

medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas, to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

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

a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room, that doesn't suck.

I might even say, kind of a fun waiting room, sometimes a little dark, but ultimately

oh god, shut up, what was that, a record, I went 30 seconds without disgusting myself?

Woo, the website for this show is mentalpod.com and there's all kinds of stuff there you can

do to get involved in this community where we're trying to build.

There's a forum there with tons of different threads on every kind of subject you can imagine.

If there's a thread you'd like me to start, email me and let me know, but go join the forum

first and check it out.

There are about 10 different surveys that you can take on the website as well and you

can also see how other people responded in taking those surveys and that's a good way

to kill a couple hours at night as just going through those surveys and seeing what other

people, what other people think and feel and don't share because when people take the surveys

anonymously, they really open up and it's been really illuminating for me doing this show

and getting to know what's inside you guys and I don't like those, there's two things I wanted

to mention. Two episodes ago, the episode with Ali Handler was very polarizing. Some people

really liked it and some people really, really disliked it and I just want to say that I would

ask you to keep an open mind when I put episodes up that aren't what you

think a metal illness happy our episode or guest should be. In a nutshell, the episode with Ali

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