How to Laugh at Depression, With Humorist John Moe
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This week, we’re finding the humor in our woes with help from John Moe, host of The Hilarious World of Depression podcast. John helps us understand what is funny, and sometimes even good about depression, how we can recognize it within ourselves and others, and what to do about it when we find ourselves struggling. John’s latest book, The Hilarious World of Depression is out now.
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| 1:09.4 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker, |
| 1:12.1 | and today I'm joined by our travel writer, Imani Bashir. Hi, Amani. Hi, Alice. Very happy to be here. |
| 1:18.3 | Good to have you here. Amani, today we're talking about a topic that feels more necessary than ever before, |
| 1:23.5 | and that is the topic of depression. Absolutely. Between the pandemic and all of its terrible outcomes of our health and our families |
| 1:31.2 | and our economic situations. And then, of course, the highlighting of the overwhelming |
| 1:35.8 | racial injustice in this country, I'd say we definitely need to take a moment to talk about |
| 1:41.2 | our mental health. It's time. And who better to talk to us about |
| 1:44.5 | depression than the brilliant and hilarious John Moe of the hilarious World of Depression |
| 1:49.9 | podcast? More and more, I've started to think of depression as something of a superpower, |
| 1:55.6 | because I do think, to some extent, the world really is awful. |
| 2:10.2 | And so if you can see that, then it's like you're seeing something other people can't admit to being the truth. |
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