This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, and today's episode is on clinical depression.

What if your brain gets stuck in sadness and never resets?

What does it feel like when joy disappears completely?

Can a person love their family deeply and still want to die?

What does a person do when treatment after treatment fails?

What if relief could come from rewiring the brain? What if the difference between despair

and recovery is electrical? And how do we as members of our community come to better recognize

suffering that would otherwise be invisible.

Today we're going to talk with John Nelson, a man who suffered for years under the grip of depression.

As you're going to see, he's incredibly honest and transparent about his experiences, what it was like from the inside.

And finally, he'll tell us about the radical treatment

that he took to get relief. John speaks and campaigns tirelessly for a better understanding of

depression, to try to relieve the suffering of millions of other people.

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.

Music look the way they do. This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

Yeah. Guaranteed Human. Today's episode is about depression.

Every brain is constantly generating a model of the world.

This includes the sights and the sounds around you, your memories, your expectations, all that.

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