Welcome to Episode 120 with my guest listener, Louise, who lives with the Asperger's.

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I'm Paul Gilmarten.

This is the mental illness Happy Hour.

An hour or two about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions

and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

The 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 this show is mentalpod.com, please go there and browse, finger the merchandise,

be a looky-loo, take some of the surveys, join the forum, donate if you feel like it.

And speaking of donating, my soul was donated, boy, is that a horrible, horrible segue.

I am so high from the black hawks, winning the Stanley Cup a couple of nights ago, that

I may have to reset my sobriety date, I am just, I know I shouldn't be that excited

by something that really has nothing actually to do with my life, but it feels like it really

does.

It felt like I was there actually participating, and I don't even want to know how sick

and deep that goes, but very exciting, very exciting.

Before we get to the conversation with Louise, she sent me an email and she wanted

to clarify something, she said that she had referred to herself in her earlier years

as morbidly obese, and she said that that's really not accurate, it was more just obese.

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