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It's the hilarious world of depression.

Adventure's in therapy edition.

I'm John Moe. Talk therapy is one of the most common ways people use to treat depression,

and it can be really effective. But it's not some kind of miracle cure. You don't walk out of your

first session, or maybe even your 50th, clicking your heels up and announcing that all your problems

have been solved. Now, it's a lot messier and generally a lot more gradual than that.

And that's because it's humans talking to humans about difficult things like the human mind.

Trying to figure out an issue you're having can open up a whole new issue that's causing it.

Sometimes a quest for answers leads to just a ton more questions.

And sometimes two people together just don't click, or what a therapist brings to the relationship

doesn't mix with what the patient brings. Now, at that point, a lot of people figure,

hey, screw this, therapy is stupid, it's all a scam, I'm giving up.

We're here to say don't do that. Don't give up. Keep trying. Finding the right match is a process.

But you can also think of it as an adventure. So today, with the help of our listeners,

we are bringing you short stories of some of those adventures. And yeah, some of the stories are

of brief therapy relationships that didn't work out at all. Hey, John, this is Erica Chambers from

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