Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenage at Therapy. I'm Gayao, I'm Thomas, I'm Mark, I'm Kayla,

and welcome back to the podcast. If you're new here, this is the podcast where we overshare

on the internet, give our opinions on things that no one needs to our opinion on, and then

hope you enjoy it. So this sounds like a type of podcast for you, then you found it. Yeah,

because sometimes I realize that there's probably a lot of new people that listen every episode,

and they were just like making an intro, so they're like, what the fuck are you talking about?

So yeah, welcome, welcome. It's kind of ironic because I'm on a podcast where I openly share my

feelings and I talk about how I'm doing and how I'm feeling. Yeah, something I really, really

struggle with are intimacy issues. Intimacy issues. Yeah, I'm not exactly even sure what that means,

but I started noticing that I will never bring up my feelings just to bring up my feelings.

Sometimes people would just be like, hey, can I talk to you? I'm like, yeah, they're like,

yeah, I've just been feeling so upset recently. I think I'm like, well, I would never do that.

Me just going up to someone, but I've been feeling really down recently. That's so foreign to me.

Even if people ask how I'm doing, I'll be fine. I don't even see it as an option

that I could tell people how I'm feeling. So it's really weird for me now being on this podcast

when I actually need to talk about what I'm feeling and even then I tend to not really share that

Now here's the breakdown of how it made me feel, but not necessarily the feelings in

itself.

A lot of the issues that I do have strong feelings about, I just don't talk to them until

after I've analyzed them, which I think is kind of normal either way.

But yeah, personally I've noticed I have very big intimacy issues in friendships as well,

and I think that's why I find it so hard to be friends with people or close friends with

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