Welcome to episode 109 with my guest, listener Claire LaFarr.

I'm Paul Gilmarton.

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.

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

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

The website for this show is mentalpod.com, there's all kinds of stuff you can do there,

you can join the forum, there's so many different threads that have been started on various subjects.

In fact, while I'm thinking of it, I have started a thread about meetups and one of the

sub threads underneath that is the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, which I am going to April

18th through the 20th, and so any information about shows and meeting places will be posted

on that thread, so go there for it.

You can also email me, well, I guess I should tell you that the shows that are going to

happen there in Portland April 18th through 20, that Thursday night, it's not a show

so much as at 8 o'clock on Thursday night, the 18th, we're going to do kind of a group recording

at Lewis and Clark College, which is about 15 minutes south of Portland, I'm told, and

a student there has been nice enough to reserve a conference room, and so I thought it would

be fun to have people bring and print out surveys that they relate to, that other people

have filled out, and get on mic and talk about why they relate to what that person's feeling

and going through, so I'm not really sure exactly how it's all going to shake out, but

if you want to reserve a spot at that, it's free, it isn't going to cost anything, email

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