A note to our listeners. This episode contains mention of suicide.

Maybe you've run across this question before. What do people with mental illnesses do all day?

Well, I can help answer that. A lot of time, they go to work. They have jobs. They need to have

their jobs to make money and get by, and they go to work

and do their work, and the work can be harder because unlike people without mental illnesses,

they have to carry this extra load around all day. Some can't work. Lots of them can and need to and

do. Twenty-three percent of Americans live with a mental

illness. Loads of them go to work. Sorry if that doesn't match your stereotype. And sure,

sometimes they need to take time off to get help for their mental illness. Maybe if they're lucky,

they can get medical leave or something. But yeah, a lot of

the time, eventually, they have to get back on the job, on the assembly line, in the classroom,

in the office with their anxiety, their depression, their PTSD, or in the recording studio,

with their bipolar disorder. It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

It's unforgivable. It's unforgivable. To take a good, keep it from the world. Look at what you've done

Why was I the one that's unforgivable?

Unforgivable

I pay the call

That's Unforgivable, the first track of the new album Beneath the Lillipad by singer-songwriter Alexandra's Savior.

Alexandra's originally from Portland, she listened to a lot of Nina Simone and Billy Holiday growing up.

She lives in Los Angeles now.

Alexandra just turned 30, but she's been performing since high school when she was more or less discovered on YouTube by Courtney Love, who helped launch her career.

She's received critical acclaim, worked with some big-name stars, developed a big following.

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