These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Two years ago, I sent you an anonymous question for your podcast. I never asked to be born and my life feels exhausting.

That's what this person said in their letter.

They go on to say that the original message they sent said,

I don't understand why I should live particularly,

considering that being born wasn't even my choice.

You answered it in your episode called I didn't ask to be born and I don't want to be here.

What struck me most was how you were right about me in most of the episode, even though I gave you almost no info about myself.

At the time, I was in my first year of post-grad and felt completely empty despite achieving things externally.

Your response was gentle and humble and your point about taking control of my life

instead of feeling helpless and looking solely inward actually influenced me.

Even though I didn't fully realize it back then.

I never wrote to thank you and I wanted to do that now.

Your answer mattered.

Man, that really hit me. It made me tear up.

And that's the message that somebody sent to me thanking me for addressing their message or their previous message in a previous episode. And again, that's called, I didn't ask to be born and I don't want to be here.

You'll find it at the overwhelmed brain.com.

If you want to listen to that, it was a tough episode.

I mean, that was a very tough one to do because these are real thoughts and feelings

that any one of us could have at any time.

And I've had these thoughts and feelings in my 20s.

So I wanted to address it.

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