Welcome to episode 119 with my guest, listener Tom from Portland.

I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the Mental Illness Happy Hour, an hour or two of honesty about

all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas to

everyday compulsive negative thinking.

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

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forum and find kindred spirits there, so please go check it out and I just want to give

you an update on week three of the new med, I'm on a limited, and I feel like I'm moving

in the right direction like one step, like 5% better, but I'm not sleeping as much

which I think is a good sign and I had something interesting happen today.

I went to do Lin Chen's podcast, many of you know Lin was a guest, a couple of episodes

back who is just a really nice warm person and she was so open and honest and vulnerable

when I was talking with her on my episode that I got really moved and kind of broke down

and we had to turn the recording off for a little bit because I just, I don't know, I just,

she hugged me and I cried and then I felt bad about it and was like when am I, am I some

kind of fucking weirdo.

And when I went to talk to her today and do her podcast, you know, after we talked mostly

about food and stuff like that and after it was over, we were talking and we were talking

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