Bonus Episode: Depression will talk. You don't have to listen. (And other lessons I've learned about depression.)

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

I put together this episode after the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. The loss of both of these talented, successfully, beloved people in one week was tragic. A few days after it happened, I read two great stories that talked about how important it is to tell our stories about getting through depression. When the news media focuses on a suicide and how it happens, it can lead to contagion. But when people tell their personal stories of getting through depression or suicidal thoughts or attempts, it helps people in the midst of a crisis see that they can survive.

In that spirit, I offer up the things I've learned from surviving depression, as well as how I got through it. I hope it helps you or someone you love. I'm posting links to the two articles mentioned on the shownotes page, which you can find here: yogalandpodcast.com/bonusepisode

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is a bonus part of the summer series. This is a decidedly more somber episode and I'm guessing I haven't figured out the title of it yet but I'm guessing that you're going to know from the title that it's more somber.
0:24.5	I've been thinking about this episode for a few weeks and I'm just driven to put it out there
0:32.3	and use this show and this little platform that I have to try to put some
0:40.0	empathy and compassion into the world. A few weeks ago, two very high profile people here in the
0:46.3	U.S. Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain committed suicide and it happened within the same week and it was I think profoundly shocking for so many of us. They're both
0:57.0	really beloved people and they seemingly had it all. They were both very
1:02.2	wealthy, they were high achievers, they were at the top of their fields,
1:07.1	they were both creatives and seemed to be doing what they loved most in life. They both had many people who love them. And it was not
1:15.5	hourly obvious to any of us, of course, because we don't know their inner lives that
1:19.6	they were depressed. So I was really shocked as so many of us were when this happened. I was
1:28.5	really saddened by especially Anthony Bourdain's death. We are huge fans of his in this family.
1:36.7	And I noticed myself kind of doing what so many of us do after a suicide, which is, I think of it as an unconscious way to
1:46.4	disconnect ourselves from the person's experience and to say, how could that have happened?
1:51.5	And I'm so shocked and I can't ever imagine getting to that place in my life.
1:58.6	I think that's a very natural reaction, but I read two stories that kind of helped me change and reframe that
2:06.1	reaction. One of them was in USA Today and one of them was on NPR and I will post
2:12.1	links to both of them in the show notes page. I think they're just the most helpful and most important
2:17.8	pieces I've ever read about suicide published on large, you know, audience platforms.
2:24.1	So the USA Today column is from a columnist.
2:28.6	I think she's a regular columnist
2:29.8	and she basically talks about how she went through a period in her life of having suicidal thoughts
2:36.5	and that people couldn't take wouldn't take her
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