Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger as always I'm here with my producer Jason to Philipo

My friend Kristen Karney is a comedian writer and radio host

She's co-hosted on Love Line with Dr. Drew who you know and she's also been Adam Corolla's sidekick on the Adam Corolla show

She's got a lot going for she's smart. She's beautiful. She's funny and she's also depressed

And this has been something that's followed her for a while and recently the specter of suicide hit much too close to home

What I really love about Kristen is that she never tries to sugarcoat anything. She's so open so candid

It's impossible not to do exactly the same when you're with her

Which is what makes this conversation with her so valuable?

Whether or not you suffer from depression you know someone who does or you're only glancing at it from afar

This is one of those conversations that's worth being a part of and I'm honored to do so with you here today

Of course aside from an inside look at a phenomenon that affects millions of people around the world

We also dive into some practicals that all of us need to be doing to stay even keel and mentally chill

After the show you'll be better equipped to deal with your own emotional states as well as those of others and for that reason

This episode for me was particularly impactful. All right. Here's Kristen Karney

So you started doing mentally chill with your friend Stevie Ryan who a lot of us might know

She was a youtuber. She had her own television show. She

seemingly had a lot of stuff going on and and we lost her

somewhat recently so this is sort of

There's like is it a cruel it's not irony. It's a cruel. Yes, it is a cruel irony that we're doing a show about depression about somebody

Who is depressed about two people who did a show about depression and actually suffered from it quite deeply?

Yeah, I mean the

Circumstance surrounding doing a podcast on depression and then having your co-host

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