Hey, before we get started, I have some really great news.

Depression Mode episodes will now be available as written transcripts.

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Just go to maximumfund.org slash transcripts.

We plan to have transcripts available a few days after the episodes are released.

In fact, you can find

last week's episode with Warren Zanes available as a transcript now. We also have transcripts

of other maximum fun shows. Maximumfund.org slash transcripts. There There are a few false ideas that go along with the illness of major depressive disorder,

or clinical depression, or clinny D, depress, the black dog, old bleaky.

Yeah, there are more than a few false ideas, actually, that go along with depression.

More like a million false ideas.

But I'll just go through three of them for right now.

Okay, false idea number one.

Depression is all about being sad.

Okay, yeah, it can involve sadness,

but it can also, and usually does also, involve a lot of other symptoms as well.

Sadness is just like the tuba in an orchestra.

You wouldn't look at an orchestra and say,

ah, yes, that's a tuba player.

No, there are flutes and strings and clarinets and trombones.

Depression, the mood or depression, the feeling, might be about some sadness, but the disorder

is about a lot of things. False idea number two. If you are depressed, you are incapable of doing

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