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Dec 2021
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S4 Ep 16: Why You Don‘t Know Who You Are

Brian Barnett
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Using Philadelphia's Septa railroad lines to illustrate how to trace symptoms of emotional disorder back to their origin, and why it's important. Identity: Who are you? Why is this difficult to know? How do you fix it? Mr. Loveless and the pencil in the ceiling. Crippling shame. 

This information was originally buried within a much longer episode. I have re-edited it and set it apart as a standalone episode here so that more people might benefit from it. 

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