A note to our listeners, this episode contains mention of suicidal ideation.

Try to meet interesting people in this life.

That's my advice.

Treasure your friends.

Spend time with your family.

Yes, yes, of course.

But also do what you can to meet people far outside your range of experience.

Let them meet you since you are far outside your range of experience. Let them meet you, since you are far outside their range of experience. Get to know as much of the range of humanity as your time and circumstances

allow. Learn what a different life is like. Learn all that you actually have in common with someone who may seem very different.

One, I think it could help your mental health, especially like depression and anxiety,

because it busts your mind out of the ruts and routines that make up so much of your day-to-day

world. But the other reason, and maybe related, is that you can learn

a lot. Those different sorts of folks than you, those people can expand your mind, get some

plasticity going to your brain, loosen you up, make you forget about yourself for a while also.

I grant you meeting people like that. I may be at an advantage over

you in that my job often involves those people appearing on my show. But I do kind of see part of the

duties of my job as being to introduce you to folks you might not otherwise come in contact with,

who you will learn from, and maybe like.

The show, yes, it's Depression Mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

We get a fair number of pitches for our show from publicists who are hoping to get their clients booked on depressed mode.

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