Lulu Miller Treats Her Depression With Fish Research, Finds Fish Don’t Exist

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Public radio and podcast audiences have been listening to Lulu Miller’s storytelling for years on Radiolab and on Invisibilia, a show she co-founded. Her work is generally about other people but on this episode, she shares her own story, which is by turns harrowing and triumphant. Lulu’s new book is “Why Fish Don’t Exist” (Link: https://bit.ly/2XNTnq4) and it’s about her history with depression, the scientific curiosity that helped get her back on track, and, yeah, why fish don’t exist.

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0:00.0	It's fun to talk to science reporters.
0:02.7	Do you know the etymology of depression?
0:04.7	What's the etymology of depression?
0:06.7	It's from the Latin to press down, which I guess you know
0:11.1	is road like you dig out a road.
0:13.4	And it was used as an astronomical term
0:16.4	before the emotional term.
0:18.1	And then it was economical and finally
0:20.3	meteorological as in referring to the barometric pressure
0:26.1	of a system.
0:27.0	Well, what was the astronomical though?
0:29.0	Like a star below the horizon line, an angle.
0:32.8	That there's something which I didn't even know
0:34.6	you could have a star below the horizon line.
0:36.1	But that's what the internet tell me.
0:39.6	And that's what I was doing.
0:41.8	Lulu, I have felt like a star below the horizon line
0:45.0	the entire life.
0:46.2	Yeah.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:51.2	I really did.
0:52.2	When will the sun come up on me?
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