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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 1d

Really fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with P.E. Moskowitz @pempem.bsky.social this week about drugs, trauma, and whether the problems you're having are you having an illness or you living in a sick world. You'll want to hear this one.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 1d

Latest edition of our FREE newsletter has:
- the debate of whether you have an illness or you just leave in a diseased world
- terrifying layoffs
- foraging
- comic strips
- baldness = good
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Maybe you're Not Crazy. Maybe the World Is. We Have Evidence.

Featuring: bald people like P.E. Moskowitz, Yul Brynner, and Snuffy Smith

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 6d

I've had a wonderful experience producing the podcast series In This Family. It's about mental health as it travels through families of origin and on to families we create. This week we have a fascinating talk with Dr. Joseph Lee of Hazelden Betty Ford.
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Dr. Joseph Lee, CEO of Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, on Addiction and Healing

As a young resident at Duke University, Joseph Lee saw the profound change that people were capable of when dealing with addiction. He witnessed how people could become healthier than they had ever be...

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 8d

When you think of people with depression and anxiety, you don't think of folks like Kendall Toole. Entrepreneur, former star instructor on Peloton, confident, poised, in great shape, former USC cheerleader. Mental illness doesn't care. It'll get you anyway.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 8d

This week's newsletter is way less bleak than many editions: the power of kittens, hairdressers responding to a mental health crisis, some stuff about sugar that's a little distressing but good to find out.
Subscribe for free! AND READ THE KITTEN STORY.
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KITTENS, Sugar, Hairdressers and more

Well, this sounds like a much more cheerful newsletter than I usually put out

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 12d

Editing show for next week. Interview ends with guest talking about her mental state resembling Tina Turner - can be sweet but can be rough also.

Torn whether to go out with uptempo part of "Proud Mary" or "We Don't Need Another Hero".

Hey our show isn't easy.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 15d

New Depresh Mode newsletter is up!
- Springsteen!
- Ketamine
- Sensible global policy!
- Mysterious wedding guest who no one knows!
- Many dogs!
- Anxiety in the womb!

Subscribe for freeeeee!

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Maybe Springsteen Tickets Should Be Covered by Your Insurance

Also: your prenatal anxiety triggers and a mysterious wedding guest

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 15d

Anne was 59. Had been hospitalized for depression, received rounds of ECT, survived an emotionally abusive childhood.
Then she went to a Springsteen show. Her *first ever* concert. It changed everything. So she followed Bruce to Australia.
Hell of a story this week.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 22d

Okay, the good news: one lady has found the cure for depression and anxiety. The bad news: you have to spend a lot of time with tarantulas, who are God's true monsters.

Subscribe for free to our Depresh Mode newsletter!

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Nervous Breakdowns, Psychosis, and Tarantula-based depression cures

Boy, I just tempted you to read more, right? Or repel you forever?

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 22d

A couple years ago, singer/songwriter Emma Swift @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social had a nervous breakdown & psychotic episode. She was hospitalized for several weeks. Then got better and wrote some amazing songs. She walks us through all of it in a fascinating interview.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 29d

This week's Depresh Mode newsletter has some very scary stuff and some hopeful stuff and some stuff about how great it is to be bored.
Always free to subscribe.
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AI Psychosis, Effective Psilocybin, and the Wonders of Boredom

The first two would seem to cancel out the third but hang with me

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 29d

Really amazing conversation with @mharrisondupre.bsky.social of Futurist about this. She's been covering the story for a while and the stories she tells are heartbreaking and deepy worrying.

Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · 29d

People are using AI bots like ChatGPT, losing touch with reality, and ending up hospitalized or dead. It's being called AI psychosis, which is a pretty alarming name but seems pretty accurate. This week's show explores it. Important and disturbing listen.
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Person being sucked into a computer illustration from Stat News

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Sep 11

John here. Editing next week's show, which is about AI psychosis. At one point, I use the phrase, "the robot mommy who's going to kill us all."
Gonna be a great episode!
Please don't kill me, robot mommy.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Sep 8

Delighted to welcome Alex Edelman to the show this week. Emmy and Tony winner for his one-man show Just For Us and one of the stars of The Paper. We talk about those shows, psychic damage, ADHD, grief and so much more.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also, is there a connection between all the lead in the Pacific Northwest in the sixties and seventies and guys like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and Gary Ridgway living there around that time?
Eesh.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Sep 2

In the latest issue of the (free!) newsletter:
- Arranging your home for better mental health
- AI psychosis
- All the places we can hang out this fall
- In defiance of MC Skat Kat, opposites DO NOT attract
- Good news on post-partum depression treatment

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How Your Home And Also AI Drive You Bananas

Also, lead and serial killers plus good news(!) on post-partum depression treatment

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Sep 1

What is your clutter, your design, the overall THING of your home design doing to your mental health? We have Dr. Beverly Walpole to talk about the way you live and the relationship to the way your mind works.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 25

Our latest newsletter, totally free to subscribe, is now available.
Big news on the power of lithium plus why Bill Hader wasn't on the SNL 50th anniversary, people doing amazing things with yo-yos and dance moves, and tennis and Broadway stars putting you to sleep.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 25

Denise Winkelman is a:
- comedian with a new debut special
- transgender lesbian woman
- former pro wrestler
- person with chronic pain and fibromyalgia
- fascinating human being with an amazing story
- our guest on the podcast this week

You'll want to hear this one.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our show this week features Ashly Burch, acclaimed actor, maker, swell person. She has a new YouTube show about mental health featuring puppets and swears. We discuss ANXIETY, EMDR, trauma, and, you know, puppets.
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I'm glad she's here. And I'm happy too.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our newsletter is FREE to subscribe, it's great, subscribe now. Latest issue has info on how your smartphone habits can be analyzed for indications of mental illness risk. Also, despite what Hollywood and the press tell you, violent crime is way way down.
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Your Phone Can Tell If You're At Risk For Going Bananas

Also: stealing cop guns to buy drugs, intense sports and depresh, and the secret plummet in violent crime.

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 11

I can't summarize our amazing interview with author and comedian Tiffany Jenkins this week so here are things that come up:
Anxiety
Addiction
Stealing a cop's guns
Selling them for drugs
Passive suicidal ideation
Comedy!
Refusing to give kids grapes b/c choking terror

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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 4

Latest edition of our FREE Depresh Mode newsletter has alarming information on the FDA's approach to SSRIs, intriguing developments on mandatory mental health screenings in public schools, and how to upload a picture to a bird and then download it from a bird.
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Depresh Mode with John Moe @depreshmode.bsky.social · Aug 4

Also, please, @bsky.app, an edit feature.

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