Welcome to episode 695 with my guest Dave Mannheim if you're new to the podcast

You already know the name. It's the Metal Illness Happy Hour. My name's Paul Gilmartin and this podcast is a place

for honesty about all the battles in our heads and I'm not a therapist and it's not

meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, which is usually obvious about 10 seconds

into the podcast.

Where do I want to start?

I'll start with some surveys.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey.

And it's just filled out by a woman who calls herself,

bland tan bag.

And she writes, Dear Paul, what

podcast do you listen to?

I love the metal and oldness happy hour

for its raw vulnerability and honesty. It helps me see mental health as a

human situation. If you have any recommendations for podcasts with a similar

feeling I would greatly appreciate it. I'd also like to know about any other podcast you enjoy regardless of topic.

Thanks for all you do.

I do not listen to other mental health podcasts. I kind of have to really be aware of the bandwidth of the mental health stuff that I that I take in because I don't want to get burned out and there are times where I feel like I'm kind of getting burned out by the subject matter

So I typically don't do that. That being said, I have been a guest on many, many

mental health podcasts that I really enjoyed.

So a way to discover some of those might be to go on Apple Podcasts

and do a search for my name and a lot of those will come up. So just a

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