Welcome to episode 190 with my guest, Aparna Nancherla.

I'm Paul Gilmarton, this is the Metal Inness Happy Hour.

Honesty about all the battles in our heads for medically diagnosed conditions past traumas,

sexual dysfunction, to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I'm not a therapist, that'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.

Go there, check it out, read some blogs, got a lot of guest blogs there.

I've posted a few blogs of my own.

There are surveys that you can fill out, which I read on the podcast.

You can also see how other people have filled out the surveys.

You can also support the show financially on the website.

I want to read a couple before we get into the interview with Aparna.

This is Struggler on a Sentence Survey, filled out by a woman who calls herself so very tired.

She's African-American and about dealing with racial bias.

She writes, I know you mean well, but please stop asking questions about my hair.

This is from a woman who calls herself dual diagnosed marriage and family therapist.

About her anxiety, she writes, my panic attacks feel like I'm stuck in a tanning bed during an earthquake.

And the building has collapsed on the tanning bed with no way out.

This is filled out by a woman who calls herself Andrea and about being a sex crime victim.

She writes, I've never told anyone, I've never cried.

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