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What do you do when your own mind stops feeling safe?

How does a person sing on stage while panicking inside?

How do you learn to catch your thoughts before they catch you?

And can creativity become a survival tool? Today we're talking with

singer-songwriter Jewel about mental health, the battles that she has lived, the wisdom

she's earned, and the lives she's helping to shape. Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford,

and in these episodes, we sailed deeply into our three-pound universe

to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.

Thank you. May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

Every year, we're reminded this month to look directly at what is typically hidden.

A broken arm is obvious, a fever is obvious, but a troubled mind can stay incognito often

for a very long time.

As we talk about here every week, the brain locked inside the skull builds our reality and

interprets our social world and generates the private weather that we live

inside. And when that internal weather turns dark and stormy, that struggle can remain invisible

even to the person sitting one chair away. Mental health awareness month exists because that sort of invisibility carries a cost.

This month asks us to bring these struggles into the light,

and by doing so, to reduce stigma and to widen the pathways to care.

This matters to everyone on the planet,

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