Welcome to Episode 146 with my guest, Henda.

I'm Paul Gilmarten.

This is the metal illness happy hour, a 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.

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.

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

You can join the forum, read a blog, take a survey, see how other people filled out surveys,

or support the show.

I don't want to mention, I don't know, there's a lot of surveys at the end of this show.

I think this show is going to be on the longer side.

The interview itself is a average length, but I so want to make a penis joke right now,

but I can't quite formulate it.

Let's see, I just want to read two struggles in a sentence survey responses.

This one was filled out by Beth and about her PTSD.

She says, crying at the dentist, because the chair faces the wall, and there are people

on both sides, got to always have an out.

This one was filled out by a guy who calls himself enemy, e-n-o-m-i-e, and about his alcoholism

and drug addiction.

He writes, periods of happiness are getting shorter and more expensive.

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