Welcome to episode 138 with my guest, Johnny O. I'm Paul Gilmarton. This is the metal

illness happy hour. An hour or two of honesty about all the battles in our heads. For medically

diagnosed conditions, past traumas, sexual confusion, to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This show's 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 mentholpod.com. Metal pod is also the Twitter name you can follow me at. Please go check

out the website. You can join the forum. You can take a survey. You can see how other people

fill out surveys. You can support the show. I'm sure there's other. You can buy a t-shirt. You can

buy a coffee mug. You can shop through our Amazon search portal. What did I want to share? Oh, we

have a winner for the monthly donor slash transcriber cutting board raffle. Kelly Price won.

The number that I had picked was 105 and she came closest with the number 99. So thank you Kelly

for being a monthly donor. I'll be sending that out to her. The other thing. Oh, I wanted to share

this with you guys. Those of you that are regular listeners. Actually, I'm going to back up

even one step further and welcome our new listeners from that may have found us through iTunes.

iTunes was nice enough to put us on the homepage this last week and I know we've been getting a lot

of new downloads. So I'd encourage those of you that want that are new to the podcast and want to

know what episodes to listen to. If you go to the website and do a search on listener favorites,

there are two lists of the top 10 episodes is voted by the listeners from 2011 and 2012 and

that would be a good place to start. It had an interesting week this last week. Overall,

I've been feeling really good. I'm in the wood shop and et cetera, et cetera. But as you know,

the regular listeners know I have a very complicated relationship with my mom. Cut contact with her

about a year and a half ago. Some thoughts and feelings and memories surface that I had pushed

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