Welcome to episode 95 with my guest Maria Bamford.

I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the Metal Illness Happy Hour.

An hour of honesty?

Man, not an hour more like 90 minutes.

90 minutes of honesty about all the battles in your, I'm not going back, I'm fucking

flowing ahead.

90 minutes of honesty about all the battles in your heads from medically diagnosed conditions

to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling, it's not

a doctor's office.

It's more like an awaiting room that, let's see what is our listener James says, more

like a waiting room that hopefully doesn't have a really cute girl or guy sitting across

from you who you really want to ask out, but you feel it would be so inappropriate, you're

literally paralyzed with shame and it derails your entire session with your shrink.

That one made me laugh.

So yeah, it's more like that, not a doctor's office.

I want to apologize for last week's, the, just, I was listening to, I couldn't remember

if I had read it a survey or not and so I was like, oh, fuck, I'm going to go back to

last week's episode and listen to the intro and outro and see if I read that one yet.

And holy fuck was I depressed.

I hope I didn't drag you guys down with me last week, but I'm sure as you can tell from

the sound of my voice, I am feeling markedly better this week.

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