Tony shares his thoughts on John Kim's, aka "The Angry Therapist" article "7 Tips for Dealing with Life if You Can't Afford a Therapist," https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-angry-therapist/201802/7-tips-dealing-life-if-you-cant-afford-therapist John is the author of the book "I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman's Guide to a Meaningful Life." https://www.amazon.com/Used-Miserable-everymans-guide-meaningful/dp/1780723962/

John was featured on episode 107 of The Virtual Couch https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-couch/id1275153998?i=1000457707797

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[00:00:22] Hey everybody, welcome to Episode 329 of the Virtual Couch. I am your host, Tony Overbay. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. And today we are going to start with an email. Now I get plenty of emails and I'm grateful for the emails and please continue to send your emails. I get emails of requests for different episodes or questions to handle on a Q&A or request to point somebody to therapy or whatever the emails are. But here's one that I received a long time ago and that I never have talked about, but I think it will set the table for where we're going to go today. So the email says, and I will protect the anonymity of the person that wrote it. But the email says I needed to write and tell you that you're snorting needs to stop. I can tell that it's not genuine. It's obviously forced. I want to listen to your podcast, but in episode 257, you had already snorted. You had already forced two snorts in the first couple of minutes. And I really need you to either stop snorting or I am not going to be able to listen. And I know that several of my friends listen as well, and they all say the same thing. So I did hesitate at the time. I remember writing up a pretty clever response and I never responded to the person because there really wasn't much need to respond.

[00:01:33] But here was the response that I penned or that I put down in my notes that I never did anything with. I said I honestly did hesitate just before sharing this, because I've had so many wonderful conversations with my wife about whether or not you give attention or energy to the people who are negative or mean or the haters, haters going to hate. Right? And maybe I'm just seeking validation, but I feel like the reason that I wanted to share this comment I received at this point when I was writing, it was the day before or the day after I said when I received this comment last night, as I truly empathize for somebody who feels a need to present information in this manner in hopes of eliciting change, and I first wanted to be snarky and funny and say to the person. Episode 247 Try Episodes one through 256, and I even searched for the word snort in my email program and wanted to share many of the comments where people thought that it was funny, human, endearing, genuine, or you name it. And by the way, there were, I think at the time there were 30 or 40 emails that were mentioning snorting at that time. And then I said that I then wanted to get on my soapbox and say how invalidated I felt that at that time. So this was episode 157. So it was I can't do the math.

[00:02:42] We're in episode 329 now,