Welcome to episode 140 with my guest, listener D. 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, or sexual dysfunction 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 that doesn't suck.

The website for this show is mentalpod.com. Please go check it out. All kinds of good stuff

there. Blogs you can read surveys you can take. You can see how other people took the

surveys. You can support the show financially. And there's other stuff. You can buy a t-shirt,

a coffee mug, et cetera, et cetera. I wanted to remind you that next week, November 15

and 16. I'm going to be in Toronto. And down the 15th, I'll be doing a group recording

at seven o'clock. And anybody is invited to join that. No tickets are necessary. It's

going to be at the Workman Arts Theatre. And that is the same place that I am doing

a live recording of the podcast with a single guest, Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall.

Saturday, the 16th at 4 o'clock PM. Again, at the Workman Arts Theatre. And tickets are

necessary for that. And they are available. The link for that is on my website. It's on

the homepage, about halfway down. And so again, Friday nights, having a clock group recording.

Everybody's invited. And Susan Hagen is going to be sitting in. And so basically, people

are going to be stepping up to the mic. I'm going to have a stack of surveys there for

people to read through. And maybe it'll trigger something you want to talk about on the

mic. And Susan and I'll just kind of be chiming in. So hopefully you can make it. Let's

get to a couple of surveys before we get to our interview with Dee. This one, these are

from the struggle in the sentence survey. And Jane about her anxiety says, if only I

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