Welcome to Episode 115 with my guest, Ashley Birch.

I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour, 90 minutes of honesty about

all the battles in our heads.

For Metaclade, keep going, 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 didn't suck.

A website for this show is metalpod.com, all kinds of good stuff there.

There's a forum you can join, there are surveys you can take, you can see how other people

responded to the survey, people revealing some of their deepest, darkest secrets, a lot

of those we read on the show.

And yeah, so go check out the website.

What the interview today, one of the things that Ashley asked me to do was bleep out the

name of a doctor that is mentioned in it, so when you hear that, get bleaped out, she

was just more comfortable not having that person's name said publicly.

And I had no problem with doing that.

What do I want to tell you, oh, I want to remind you that a week from, I guess it would

be, see, this goes up on the 24th on May 30th, 2013, is the debut of a documentary on

the California PBS stations, TV stations, called a new state of mind, ending the stigma

of metal illness and they cover the podcast on that.

So I'm very excited to be a part of that.

And former guests, Megan Parkanski and Greg Barrett also get interviewed for that.

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