I say that it felt like a just a bundle like a bunched up tangled thread in my brain.

It was imp- it felt impossible to like detangle the threads.

The ketamine made it so that the threads were looser, you know, and it's like I can at least pick it apart now and try to work one thread at a time instead of this bunch that seems like you literally just want to cut it off because there's nothing you can do with it anymore.

Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics

related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and

recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if

you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel out, check out the episode and just see what happens.

If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first.

I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a

substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the

show. All right, hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 222. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff,

aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you. And today I have a really

special episode for you.

This is a conversation with my wife, Joelle.

And as you guys know, she's been going through

some significant mental health challenges

and kind of had a crisis recently and we had to intervene and you know make a whole

plan to try to get things a little bit more back on track and we've done so in a lot of

ways obviously things are continuing to progress and things haven't you

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