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I am Paul Gilmarten, oh, they were so cheesy, oh my god, I am Paul Gilmarten, this is like

and there was a flash in my brain like, oh, this would be a great way to segue that.

Oh, I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the middle illness, happy hour, two hours of honesty about

all the battles in our heads for 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, that should

be quite clear by now, it's not a doctor's office, I'm not a therapist, it's more like

a waiting room that doesn't suck.

The website for this show is mentalpod.com, go check it out, take a survey, see how other

people fill out surveys, read a blog, join the forum, a lot of people really connecting

quite deeply on the forum, it's a beautiful thing to witness, you can also share your fears

and the loves there, got a gazillion different topics that you can post under, and you can

also support the show financially by going to the website.

What do I want to say, let's do this, let's write, I want to kick it off with a, oh,

first of all, before that, I've decided that I'm going to start highlighting the upcoming

episodes, moments of perfectionist angst, because almost every episode that I put up,

there's something that I don't edit out that I kind of wish I had, because it doesn't

make me look good, and I've decided for my own personal growth to start leaving those

things in there and to learn how to be comfortable with mistakes, and the two things in this

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