It's scary at first for sure, but once you get over the roadblocks and start being comfortable with being vulnerable and not wary of the unknown, I think there's a lot of pay off for it.

Oh, let it out. Let It Out, Let It Out, hosted by me, Katie, Katie Dale Bout.

We have an episode today with Ryan Brenty.

He's an artist and the founder of Depressed Monsters,

which you'll hear all about the mental health activism that he does with his work and his art in this

episode. But I relate to Ryan a lot. And in this conversation, which we recorded live in our

Little Space Lounge at the Emerge Music Festival, we get into depression and what it feels like

for each of us. We talk about nostalgia and how looking forward to things helps.

We talk about communicating depression and relationships and a lot more.

And I just wanted to, I think we've talked about depression here and there.

And I haven't really talked about my depression all that much on this podcast, although I don't know,

maybe some of you would say, isn't that all you talk about? But I've always had this tendency

towards melancholy, which is just a nice way of saying you have depression. I have clinical

depression, which I've been able to mostly manage. And it felt really good to talk about it in this episode and I think talking

about mental health, whatever it is that you're going through, situational depression,

clinical depression, clinical depression that's exasperated by situations. It's really good

to talk about this stuff. It's really good to let it out.

And that's what we're doing in this episode and that's what we do on this podcast and through my

work, it's going to be something I continue to do forever. I think the through line of this podcast

and my writing and all of my work is letting out things that we hold on to and we want to

hide because when we let those out, we don't have to manage them anymore. We don't have to

feel alone in them anymore. And probably people will relate, maybe a lot of people, and it helps you feel less alone.

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