Welcome to episode 145 with my guest, Dr. David Lisek.

I'm Paul Gilmarten.

This is the metal illness happy hour.

Couple of hours of honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions.

Past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This 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 mental pod.com.

Metal pod is also the Twitter handle that you can follow me at.

Please go check out the website. There's all kinds of good stuff on there.

And I also want to give a shout out to our sponsor for this week's episode.

The organization one in six.org.

The website is the one in the six are both numbers.

And the one in six is the statistic of men who are the victim of childhood sexual abuse.

And their website has tons of really, really helpful stuff for survivors.

Again, one in six.org.

I'm going to kick this episode off with a couple of excerpts from the Struggle and a Sentence Survey.

This one was filled out by a woman who calls herself another orphan.

About her depression, she says, after I come down from the weird anxiety high and depression strikes,

nothing I think feels say or do matters because I as a human being don't matter.

About her anxiety, she says, I feel like I have to put a puzzle with over a thousand pieces

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