Welcome to episode 733 with my guests, The Minimalists.

My name's Paul.

How you doing?

This place, the metal illness happy hour 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 and this show is not meant to be used as a substitute for metal counseling.

The website for this podcast is metalpod.com and metalpod, also the social media handle.

You can follow us at.

Half of this show is an interview. You can follow us at.

Half of this show is an interview.

The other half are surveys that we read.

And every once in a while, I will do an episode here where it's a minimum of surveys,

and then the bulk of the surveys will be on our Patreon page and that's patreon.com slash mental pod and so at the $5 and above level you have access to weekly bonus surveys,

usually about 20 minutes of those and all different kinds of rewards slash benefits at different Patreon tier levels.

At the $20 a month, you can be a part of our Zoom hangout slash support group.

That's Saturday mornings for Europeans and, or at least for the European time zone and on Sundays at 4 o'clock

Pacific time for people on the United States time zone.

Here's a couple of surveys. This one is from the voice in your head survey and this is filled

out by a woman who calls herself Sam. What are some of the things you tell yourself about yourself? I'm not pretty, not feminine,

not smart, an imposter destined for loneliness and suicide. Wow, we're getting heavy right out of

the fucking gate.

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