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

Brian Barnett
About this episode

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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