Welcome to episode 699 with my guest Dr. Arash Javanbach. You're listening as it says on the title.

To the Mental Illness Happy Hour which is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads

past and present metal emotional spiritual logistical virtual logistical. I might have stretched it there. The website for

their show is Metal pod.com,Pod also the social media handle you can

follow us at. I'm just going to jump into some surface. I know there's some other

shit I wanted to talk about and I can't think of what it is right now.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything survey filled out by TC and he writes can you please print out this survey

read it and then aggressively crumbled it up and throw it away it's respectful

to have the paper quietly put aside, but I miss the sense of

finality from a survey being bald up and tossed afterward. casting you to hell. I miss the garbage can and it's literally 12 inches away from me.

I have a feeling that's a harbinger of how the rest of this

episode is going to go. Is it harbinger or harbinger? Harbinger.

Harbinger. I'm so dumb.

This is from the Fear Survey filled out by Petra.

And she writes, I'm afraid I can't take care of myself.

I'm afraid I'll never do anything important.

I wanted to read this one because I used to have those fears too and yeah occasionally the one that I can't take

care of myself but I just wanted to say Petra if you listening, the thing about the fear that you'll never do anything important,

kindness is important.

I found a sense of meaning and importance in my life when I started going to support groups originally to get help.

But, and I do sometimes still get help there.

But what I find is a sense of meaning in my life that eases so many of my worries.

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