Ginny & Georgia Creator Sarah Lampert on Getting Mental Health Right On Screen

Depresh Mode with John Moe

Maximum Fun

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

5 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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0:00.0	A note to our listeners, this episode contains discussion of self-harm.
0:05.1	Hollywood.
0:06.3	Movies and television have a pretty bad history of portraying mental health issues.
0:11.9	I mean, look at the movie actually called Psycho from 1960.
0:17.1	It's not as if you were a maniac, a raving thing.
0:21.6	She just goes a little mad sometimes.
0:26.6	We all go a little mad sometimes.
0:30.6	We all go a little mad sometimes.
0:33.6	Haven't you?
0:43.1	Then there's a scene in the shower later where the mentally ill person... Well, I won't play that recording.
0:45.5	Mentally ill person is a scary murderer in this movie.
0:48.8	We know now that people with mental illnesses are far more likely to be the victims of crime than a person
0:55.4	committing it. Over on TV, saved by the bell addressed the issue of mental health, substance
1:02.2	use disorder, with a memorable episode in 1990 about caffeine pill addiction. It wasn't good.
1:10.2	Everything will be okay? Yeah. I just need one of these. about caffeine pill addiction. It wasn't good.
1:12.2	Everything will be okay.
1:13.8	I just need one of these.
1:15.1	Pills.
1:16.8	You mean you really are taking drugs?
1:17.4	I need them.
1:18.1	Jesse, give me those. I need them back.
1:19.0	I have to sing!
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