Comics Creator Ellen Forney on Bipolar and a Monster Named Smedmerts

Depresh Mode with John Moe

Maximum Fun

Mental Health, Comedy, John Moe, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Health & Fitness

5 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Learning to navigate the highs, the lows, the treatment, and the future.

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0:00.0	Mental illness is not always so good at announcing its presence.
0:04.7	It prefers to be sneaky.
0:07.1	Me? I don't mind announcing who I am, or the name of the show.
0:10.9	It's Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.
0:28.8	When Ellen Forney began experiencing bipolar disorder, it wasn't clear right away that something was wrong.
0:35.2	Quite the contrary, her manic episodes felt like something was going extremely right for Ellen,
0:39.3	like she was at her best self. Other people couldn't keep up. That was their problem. Ellen Forney is a Seattle-based writer, a cartoonist, a comics maker.
0:45.3	She tells stories using art and words. Her work includes the comic I Was 7 in 75, and a collection of comics titled I Love Led Zeppelin.
0:56.1	Marbles, a memoir in comics form, told the story of her experiences with bipolar disorder.
1:01.7	Rocksteady, brilliant advice for my bipolar life, is Ellen Forney's mental health self-help guide,
1:07.7	again told through words and illustration.
1:10.4	That book contains a character and a mnemonic device called Smedmarts.
1:15.3	We'll get to Smedmurts.
1:20.7	Ellen Forney, welcome to Depression Mode.
1:27.5	So happy to be here.
1:29.0	Where did you grow up?
1:30.7	Well, I was born in New Jersey, but I consider Philadelphia in my hometown.
1:35.0	We moved there when I was a kid.
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:37.5	Was cartooning always a thing for you?
1:40.3	I guess kind of not really.
1:43.7	Yeah.
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