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... Welcome to Synchronicity. This episode, I've been putting it off, not consciously, I think unconsciously, and not because I'm averse to it or afraid of it or don't want to

speak about it, but because I think it's very important.

And it carries a lot of weight and we're dealing with stuff that people go through on a regular

basis, whether they know it or not.

And what I'm referring to, I'm sure the title of

the episode probably gave it away, I haven't named it yet, but I bet it's, it clued you in,

is mental illness or perceived mental illness and imagination. And there is a fertile crossover,

fertile ground that crosses over both of those things. And we're going to

talk about that. And I'm going to use my own personal experience and diagnosis and later

realization as the anecdote that will give you insight into how I've come to these conclusions, but more

importantly, hopefully you can apply what I'm talking about to your life or if you know someone

who's struggling with any type of mental issues, right? We're getting to what that means,

but you hopefully can help them. So let's start with what a definition

or what we classically identify as symptoms of mental illness, certain types of mental

illness in this country, but let's just say the world that accepts kind of the medical

interpretation of what mental illness is. So let's look at

something like depression, right, clinically depressed. Someone who's clinically depressed is going to have

a variety of symptoms that are observable that we can look at as people and say, yeah, that person's

depressed. They are in a state of depression.

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