It’s Not You, It’s The World: Covid, Mental Health, and What Comes Next

Depresh Mode with John Moe

Maximum Fun

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

4.9 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A look at how the ongoing pandemic is affecting us, how we’re going to carry it in the future, and why you can be hopeful.

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0:00.0	A warning, this episode mentions suicide.
0:03.7	This episode also features hope.
0:07.0	Sober, sober, hope.
0:09.4	After a while.
0:14.6	It's Depression Mode.
0:20.0	I'm John Moe.
0:25.9	I'm glad you're here. Is it worse that we don't know exactly how the Omicron variant will shake out? Or would it be worse if we did? Is anxiety better than the dread
0:33.2	that would emerge from certainty? I don't know the answer to that question.
0:38.3	I know I'm tired.
0:39.3	I know I'm scared.
0:41.3	I know I'm scared of being tired and tired of being scared.
0:44.3	And I'm confused.
0:46.3	And I'm angry at people who could be helping but aren't.
0:50.3	I know one other thing.
0:52.3	The Omicron variant sounds like the name of an especially hacky 1970s thriller movie.
0:57.8	Maybe Donald Sutherland is in it.
0:59.7	Maybe Faye Dunaway.
1:00.8	Get Dennis Hopper to play the bad guy.
1:03.5	I'm already making jokes.
1:05.8	And I'm doing that because I'm anxious.
1:08.0	And making jokes is one of the ways that I cope.
1:12.3	I am telling you this. I'm telling you about my anxiety and my coping attempts in the interest of openness and candor and free
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