#41 What It Looks Like

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Keiles is a writer who decided to photograph something that’s practically invisible. Her story plus a new Yes Yes No. Read Jamie Keiles' article about Instagram here: https://medium.com/message/depressiongrams-7f22011d6113 Follow Jamie on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/jamielaurenkeiles/ If you’re feeling depressed or want to talk to someone, here are some resources: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1800-273-8255 (1800-273-TALK) http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ The Crisis Text Line http://www.crisistextline.org/ 7 Cups of Tea www.7cupsoftea.com/ Depression Tribe http://www.depressiontribe.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Reply All.
0:07.3	I'm PJ Motte.
0:13.3	Jamie Kayless has had depression for most of her life, but it got really bad a couple
0:17.2	of years ago when she was in college.
0:19.5	She was diagnosed with bipolar and around that time she started thinking about suicide.
0:23.4	She pictured hanging herself.
0:25.4	Jamie is a writer and she's used to processing her life through her work.
0:29.1	But when her friends would tell her that she should try writing about the depression
0:32.2	she was going through, it just made her really mad.
0:35.0	It's like other people who were depressed wrote great novels, but all YouTube is lay
0:39.3	around and like watch law and order.
0:41.2	Like, I don't know.
0:42.2	I guess I was in college and I was like in an creative writing program, people would be
0:45.7	like, David Foster, well, it should be your icon.
0:48.0	Like, he was so depressed and he wrote infinite jazz and that's a long-ass book.
0:51.2	Just be like one of the greatest American writers that'll get you out of it.
0:57.3	And it's like, if you're not producing art, you're somehow a fat, like you're failing
1:01.9	at being a fuck up in some way.
1:04.2	It sucked.
1:05.7	Her world felt like it was shrinking.
1:07.2	She couldn't produce art.
1:08.2	She didn't want to see her friends.
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