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I'm Greg Barron, and you're listening to Storyworthy with the side of your face.

Thank you. you're listening to Storyworthy with the side of your face. Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast.

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney.

Yeah. your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Svign. Welcome to Storyworthy.

My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Svini, and we're coming to you from the headquarters of The Nervous Breakdown magazine.

Wow. It's adown magazine. Wow.

It's a literary magazine.

From what city?

Well, it exists in cyberspace.

So we're floating now in cyberspace sort of in between.

We haven't been here before.

I know.

It's their sort of digital, we've been digitalized.

It's like Tron, except it's entertaining. Is there really, is there really a magazine called Nervous Breakdown? Yeah. I mean, I guess so. Nervous Breakdown.com. Yeah. I mean, I guess that's legitimate, obviously. Exactly. Well, obviously. And we're, you know, we're sitting here. We're floating in amongst the protons and the cretons and the, uh. And we're talking about Nervous nervous breakdowns tonight because of our guest. Greg Barrett is here. Yes, he causes nervous breakdowns wherever he goes. People are just, oh my God, I can't believe who it is, and they fall to the ground. He's a comedian, he's an author, and he's just done so many things over such a pretty long period of time. Yes. He's kind of worn many hats. Something that many comedians don't have. That you could call it a career. And apparently he's had a nervous breakdown. So this is exciting to talk about. I mean, a nervous breakdown is very, very personal. Exactly. And that's the kind of story we like. We like a story that causes the teller to be questioning whether they should be telling it. Why are we talking to this? Why am I talking to these two morons here in cyberspace? Why am I revealing this truth about myself? So it's a mental disorder, right? Or it can lead up to, I'm trying to get a nervous breakdown. There's an anxiety...

...are not related to mental illness per se. They are just an over...

No, but it's the level of your anxiety. And it can lead up to... And you can sometimes know when that's going to happen. You can kind of predict it.

Yeah, I used to get anxiety attacks all the time. But now you're medicated. I'm medicated. And I'm also just, I don't

want to say I'm smarter because I have gained or nothing over the years. But much like anything

with experience comes wisdom. So the more anxiety attacks you have, the more anxiety where you're like, oh my God, I'm going to die right now, even though I know I'm perfectly safe inside this room. Eventually, you realize that you're bullshitting yourself and you're not going to die right now. No, but it's very, very real and it's very true. Right. Yeah. When you have, I was describing anxiety attacks as the exact fear, you know, as if someone tied you to a train track and there's a train coming to you.

Right.

And that's the way, feel, except that none of that's happening.

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