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A note to our listeners, this episode contains mention of suicide.

Our show is about open, honest, hopeful, and healing conversations about mental health. We at the show believe that learning

more about the human mind and the many ways it can get complicated, that that's a good thing to do,

a good, enlightening path to follow. We believe in presenting new information, new insight,

new techniques, and breakthroughs, but we also believe in just flat out talking about

mental health journeys. It's easy to feel alone in this world, especially when something

kind of difficult is happening, and especially if your brain gets a little complicated sometimes.

Our show tells you that you are not alone. Any scary thing that you're going through

is something that someone else has gone through already. The more we talk, the more we realize

we're all on the same team, the better. We'll meet another teammate today. The name of our

show, it's Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Say what you say. Me, what you need. That's the band My Morning That's the band My Morning Jacket with Squid Ink off their new album, Is.

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