Episode #PLACEBO: Coping Ideas From a Real Live Sad Clown
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
More ideas from listeners for unusual methods they used to address their depression that actually worked. We’ve heard a wide variety of ideas from all over the world, including Jonna Nummela of Helsinki, Finland who tells about her clown alter-ego who takes lumps so Jonna doesn’t have to. We also hear about what Jonna brings into the sauna that confuses and alarms other Finns.
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| 0:00.0 | Is depression funny? |
| 0:02.0 | Yes, but it's heart sometimes, it's heart sometimes to see the funny. |
| 0:30.0 | It's the hilarious world of depression, placebo edition. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm John Moe. |
| 0:40.5 | A few weeks ago, I offered up some suggestions from listeners for unusual things that they've |
| 0:46.1 | tried to help their depression that actually worked. |
| 0:49.5 | Not talking about cures just things often odd things that provide some temporary relief |
| 0:55.7 | for some reason. |
| 0:57.2 | I'd be profan as it were. |
| 0:59.6 | And we got a lot of responses, even since that show. |
| 1:03.3 | Marianne Hughes listens to the latest news from Disneyland on podcasts. |
| 1:08.6 | Long involved podcasts about what's happening in Disneyland. |
| 1:12.2 | She skips the regular news and then just soaks that up for an hour or so. |
| 1:16.6 | Because how else will you know about the new lounge experience at Tomorrowland? |
| 1:20.8 | Jonathan Paul Haynes keeps score at baseball games. |
| 1:24.2 | It's an exhaustively detailed oriented and largely pointless exercise, gives your brain |
| 1:29.1 | a chance to stop stewing for a while. |
| 1:31.6 | Theresa Jackson plays Minecraft and especially enjoys digging ridiculously large, deep, |
| 1:37.9 | and elaborate mine shafts. |
| 1:40.4 | And at Reba Riley jumps on trampolines while listening to talks by motivational speaker |
| 1:45.8 | Tony Robbins. |
| 1:46.8 | I mean, you gotta try things. |
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