So Bob, I have some emails. Let's read them and answer them. What do you say? Yes.

So this first email is from anonymous annual patron. She says,

in my youth, I often participated in non suicidal self injury. It doesn't feel like as high.

It doesn't feel like a high as much as a numb, which you mentioned. So in my episode about

an SSI or not, by the way, this might trigger people so fast word about five or 10 minutes.

I was talking about how, you know, I did a whole deep dive on it. But one of the reasons why people

will do this is because it can make people, it takes away the pain and it can also give you a certain

high. But this person is saying, it doesn't feel like a high as much as it makes me feel numb,

which you mentioned a tad, but it seems your focus was more on the high.

For, for my experiences, it was much more of a numbness and temporary release,

released from my mental struggles. However, I will completely agree. It was a way to take my

mind off everything, especially, especially the pain, all the pain, real and imaginary,

physical and psychological. Having you explain it was validating that I'm not weird to feel this way

after self injury. Self injury seems to help better than any other vices I have tried or

partaken now to cope with my biggest issue, my own mind. I know you don't support self harm

at all, but I appreciate the validation. There are explanations of why I feel the way that I do

after these actions. Having this understanding is something I hope to bring into therapy the next

time I go. I haven't told my therapist about my self harm or how I miss it because of the stigma,

but having a better understanding of why a human brain can react to these actions make me

more willing to talk about it and hopefully work through it. Bobbady reacts to this. I'm pretty

sure you work with a lot of people who do this. Yeah, I have worked with many. I'm glad that

you're not doing it. The risk to premature death is significantly increased. How so?

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