Welcome to episode 732 with my guest, my cousin, Paul Barnard.

If you're new to the podcast, this is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads

from medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction,

to everyday compulsive negative thinking.

And I'm not a therapist that shows not meant to be a substitute

for professional mental counseling. You've been warned. Follow us on Instagram and other social media,

but really Instagram at MentalPod. And metalpod.com is our website.

This is from the Ask Paul Anything Survey and this is from Dandelion.

And I answered this question last week or I should say just kind of let you guys know that I'm safe from the fires.

The worst of it is over.

But she asks, is there any way to let us know which episodes montage clips are from?

Some of the clips are from much older episodes, and sometimes it's a voice that I don't recognize, so I can't answer all of those.

But if you either fill out this survey or shoot me an email through the website and ask which specific clips you're talking about. Not the entire

montage, but, you know, what the person is saying, there's a good chance I will know who it

is. And if I don't, I'll let you know. But thank you for that. This is from the struggle

in a sentence survey, and this is filled out by a woman who calls

herself Ara about her depression. She writes, it feels as if I'm in a large toilet that the world

has flushed and I'm so slowly circling about in the maelstrom being sucked down into the sewers.

That is an image. That is an image.

By having a serious health issue, having an autonomic nervous system disorder feels as if I'm possessed

by someone that despises in my very existence and is

murdering me slowly by destroying my digestive and circulatory system ever so slowly.

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