Welcome to episode 128 with my guest, listener Alison Beziak.

I'm Paul Gilmarten.

This is the metal illness, happy hour, an hour or two of honesty about all the battles

in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas to everyday compulsive negative

thinking.

The 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 that doesn't suck.

The website for this show is mentalpod.com.

It's also the Twitter name that you can follow me at and go check out the website.

There's all kinds of surveys you can take there.

You can also see how other people responded to surveys and you can be a part of the forum.

You can support the show and actually I am, my, my limital is about two months into taking

it I think, a month and a half maybe, no, two months and it's going great.

It's really going great and I'm back in the wood shop woodworking and I couldn't be happier.

So I am going to be raffling off a cutting board for monthly donors and the cut off to

submit a, a number to guess is Wednesday, whatever, I feel less fucking prepared for this.

This Wednesday is the cut off at noon to get your guess in.

I'm going to pick a number between one and 500 and monthly donors.

The number of guesses that you get is based on how much you are giving per month.

So if you donate five bucks per month, you get one guess.

If you're donating 20 per month, you get four guesses, et cetera, et cetera.

People who have just transcribed, swear to God, I'm not drunk.

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