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Depresh Mode with John Moe
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An award-winning weekly mental health podcast about living with complicated minds, featuring musicians, comics, researchers, experts, authors, and actors.
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It's easy to blame your mental health issues on your own weak character. Our latest (FREE! Subscribe!) has other culprits, including sleep apnea (seriously, check for that) and brain cells. Plus, stuff about @mikedougherty.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social.

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Who To Blame For Your Mental Health Instead of Yourself: Sleep Apnea, Brain Cells, Social Media
Also, we have a time machine to 1992 for people who love using the word "aloe"
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December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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We're taking a little holiday time so we're bringing back a fascinating episode with @mikedoughty.bsky.social. If you haven't heard it, please listen. Fascinating talk full of surprises and hope.

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December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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This week's FREE newsletter has a deep dive into this week's podcast episode, bleak news on dating apps, and also a Wallace & Gromit video for you to enjoy. Yeah, kind of a rollercoaster. Again: free! Subscribe!
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LBJ, MLK, Gorbachev, Depression, and Regret. Also a Li'l Goat Wearing People Clothes.
And we have some news on dating apps and mental health. And it ain't good!
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December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A really important episode today, unlike any we've done before. Tom Johnson, who had a front row seat for so much history, talks about his career, his suicidal depression, and his regrets.

We can't force you to listen, WOULD if we could, but we hope you do.

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To recap, Tom Johnson: is 84 years old was born in poverty, sold watermelons with his dad out of a truck wrote well enough for a newspaper editor to put him through college and grad school worked for LBJ in the White House starting in his early 20s broke the news to LBJ that MLK was shot became publisher of the LA Times and president of CNN loaned Gorbachev a pen he used to sign the paperwork dissolving the Soviet Union dealt with severe depression at a time when he was raised to see it as a weakness, treated it anyway is full of regrets about all the time spent on his career at the expense of his family is my guest on the show today
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Too much here to put in one Bsky post so here's a screenshot from what I put on the Preshies group on Facebook.

Tune in.
Tom Johnson: is 84 years old was born in poverty, sold watermelons with his dad out of a truck wrote well enough for a newspaper editor to put him through college and grad school worked for LBJ in the White House starting in his early 20s broke the news to LBJ that MLK was shot became publisher of the LA Times and president of CNN loaned Gorbachev a pen he used to sign the paperwork dissolving the Soviet Union dealt with severe depression at a time when he was raised to see it as a weakness, treated it anyway is full of regrets about all the time spent on his career at the expense of his family is my guest on the podcast on Monday I am so excited to bring you this episode.
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Been writing this FREE newsletter for years. May have finally written the perfect headline and subheadline:
GOOD NEWS on Anger, Home Depression Treatment, Mental Health Funding
Also: chimps are putting sticks in their butts for fashion and we have that story too

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GOOD NEWS on Anger, Home Depression Treatment, Mental Health Funding
Also: chimps are putting sticks in their butts for fashion and we have that story too
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December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Your anger is something to be understood, not feared.
In fact, it's a feature. not a bug.
It's your brain's way of alerting you to injustice, against you, against loved ones, against society.

We unpack anger and what to do with it this week with Dr. Ryan Martin.

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December 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Double shot show this week!

First! The negative mental health effects of unemployment and how to manage them with the NYT's Christina Caron.

Then! The positive mental health effects of horror films.

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NYT mental health reporter Christina Caron A bunch of horror movie characters
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Latest (FREE!) newsletter has the suckiness of unemployment on your mental health and what to do about it plus the mental health *benefits* of horror movies and nitrous oxide. Plus, John loses his shit a little and rails about capitalism.
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Things That Might Help Your Depression: Laughing Gas, Horror.
Things that suck: Unemployment, farmer mental health. Unknown: Ozempic.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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All our newsletters are interesting but this one is REALLY interesting:
- @maureenjohnsonbooks.com on anxiety, monsters
- AI therapy app creator shuts it off, says it's too dangerous
- Rage rooms make you feel worse
- Cutting WAY back on social media helps
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Giving Your Red Monster a Haircut
Also: AI therapy SHUTDOWN! And rage rooms are counter-productive!
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December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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GREAT new episode with @maureenjohnsonbooks.com about anxiety, Gossamer (did you know that monster was named Gossamer?), IRON, detective work, and solving puzzles of the detective, mental health, and puzzle varieties.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A surprise bonus mini-sode today! In This Family, produced by John Moe, is all about the complex intersection of family and mental health. The host of that show, Dr. Michelle K. Murray, has some advice on getting through and even enjoying family holidays.
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A Holiday Family Survival Mini-sode | Maximum Fun
Some tips from In This Family for getting along and getting through
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November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This week's (free! subscribe!) newsletter goes on a real roller coaster. You may get enraged (by AI and Meta), intrigued (by our pod guest), and you may laugh hard (the dark chocolate ad).
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Summary: People are Fascinating and Vulnerable, Corporations are F'ed Up
Believing you're dead, evil AI, evil social media, costly construction, painful chocolate
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November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We're in a mental health crisis in America. That's leading to more construction workers being incapacitated or dead by suicide. That makes construction costs higher. That makes housing more expensive.
Mental health crisis = everything crisis.
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Mental health crisis in construction fuels workforce shortage, drives up costs
A deepening mental health crisis within the construction industry is not only harming workers, it’s also shrinking the workforce and driving up costs.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Fascinating show this week. Esmé Weijun Wang is a brilliant writer who has experienced depression, psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, and Cotard's delusion. That's where you believe that you're actually dead. She tells us what THAT'S like.
Our minds are amazing.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Latest Depresh Mode newsletter (free! subscribe!) has info on our pod episode this week that might make you mad, stress as superpower, the mental health devastation of unemployment, and also some genetic info on Hitler's mental health (it wasn't good.)
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The Show Might Make You Mad This Week
But the Fatboy Slim news and videos may cheer you up. Also, stress as obsolete superpower.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Our guest this week, Sarah Fay, says mental illness is very real but mental health diagnoses are not scientifically valid. She says identifying with your diagnosis blocks your path to recovery. This episode might feel liberating or it might upset people. Maybe both.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Latest newsletter (FREE! You should subscribe!) talks SAMHSA cuts, psychedelic rewiring, new lawsuits against ChatGPT, heartbreaking NFL news, and also Biggie just killing it at 17 years old.
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Scary Government Cuts, Promising Psychedelic Research, and Young Biggie
Also, no, the news isn't better on ChatGPT and vulnerable users. It's worse. Good lord.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Had a great conversation with John last week about how the Trump admin has gutted SAMHSA/the ramifications for dismantling the fed agency overseeing mental health and addiction treatment.

Here's the story we talk about, written/reported w/ @levfacher.bsky.social:

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November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This week, we examine the dramatic cuts to SAMHSA, the gov't agency in charge of supporting addiction, suicide prevention, and mental health programs receiving federal funding. More than half the employees are gone since January. Huge news story and it's personal.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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SAD (seasonal affective disorder) is a term that's gone out of fashion. Now: major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern, which almost forms the acronym MUD WASP. Learn what a top mental health expert says about how to make winter bearable as mud wasps descend.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Latest Depresh Mode newsletter (always FREE) has info on how to survive a mud wasp attack. And by that, we mean seasonal affective disorder. Plus, great results for psychoactive drugs and text therapy.
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Learn These Terms Now: Mud Wasp, Ibogaine, Chatfishing
Some could help you. Some could make you further depressed. Get that sorted.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Latest (FREE!) newsletter has:
- the mental health problem of whiteness
- maybe we need to look at cells and not neurotransmitters
- postpartum detection
- Ira Glass being bold and maybe wrong?
- and more!
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Are We All Dealing With the Mental Health Problem of Whiteness?
Also some cool science news on brain cells and postpartum detection. And I think Ira Glass is wrong about something.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Now there's a title:
HOW I KNOW WHITE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY and Other Stories.
We welcome author Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter for a fascinating talk on the mental health problem that whiteness presents for everyone, regardless of race. Really fascinating discussion.

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October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I'm producing a fascinating podcast called In This Family, which is all about families and mental health. Latest episode features a great conversation with @anamariecox.bsky.social about complicated childhoods, substance use, family grudges, and healing.
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Ana Marie Cox on Alcohol and Having to Become Your Parent’s Parent
Journalist and podcaster Ana Marie Cox opens up about growing up too soon — taking care of her alcoholic mother, navigating divorce, and facing her own struggles with addiction. In this powerful conve...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM