Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again, our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Thank you to all of our followers, both here in the United States and internationally.

Enjoyed doing this and bringing this podcast to you guys on a weekly basis.

I appreciate all of your feedback and comments and suggestions.

And it does feel like a collective journey.

And it does mean a lot when you guys respond with a text or email or a phone call

thanking us and that you feel a sense of hope, which there definitely is in mental health. And I think that's

something that is missing and not conveyed enough, you know, without, you know, taking away the seriousness

of, you know, certain psychiatric conditions are just the vast majority of mental health conditions,

but I certainly appreciate all that you guys have contributed to this journey that I started

a few years ago, thanks to my father.

I've done a lot of topics in the last few weeks that were more clinically based,

and I kind of go back and forth.

And as I've mentioned at various points, as this podcast has grown in a number of people who follow us,

I do kind of vacillate between, you know,

clinical issues, existential issues, and then sometimes just practical things that we

are all confronted with on a daily basis that I think beg discussion and alternative viewpoints because a lot of us,

we are not immune to life.

And the world does not stop for our problems, even though I think at different points

of our lives, we believe that it should and that we believe

that we are entitled to have the world stop. And especially if you're in the midst of a psychiatric

crisis, it can seem very daunting and very lonely. And I appreciate that, you know, what we put out

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