Welcome to Episode 162 with my guest, Monica Little.

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On Paul Gale Martin, this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.

Two 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 ain't meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I ain't no therapist.

This ain't no doctor office.

It's more like a waiting room, it doesn't suck.

Trust me, I will never do that again.

Rest assured, if you come back, you will not have to endure that again.

The website for this show, excuse me, got a little bit of a cold.

The website for this show is mentalpod.com, go check it out.

You can support the show there, you can join the forum, you can read blogs, and you can

also take surveys and see how other people filled out surveys.

Let's get to it.

These are some, you know, I love to kick off the show with these, the struggle in the

sentence survey.

This one is filled out by a woman who calls herself polymolly doodle all day about her depression.

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