You are who you are. And who you are is good and valuable and worthy of love and care and agency

and voting rights and health care. You can build on who you are. You can develop skills and talents

and interests and become yet more. And you can take a journey to further discover the full scope of who you are.

That's great, but you are who you are, and that can't be taken away.

No one should attempt to do so.

And if someone, or a whole bunch of someone's, tries to change who you fundamentally are,

then they are, most of the time, up to no good. Like, for instance,

if you are gay and someone tries to switch you to straight, even if they believe such a thing

as possible, and it ain't. They are up to no good. But sometimes you can move forward from

experiences like that.

You can find community.

You can learn about yourself.

You can meet further challenges and move forward some more.

We're going to meet someone like that today.

It's Depression Mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

I asked our guest how he wanted to be referred to in our interview.

Nurse Blake, the professional name he uses in the entertainment and advocacy work he does,

or Blake Lynch has given name. He thought about it a bit and said Nurse Blake. Very well. Nurse Blake is a comedian and social media star, nearly a million

followers on TikTok, over 300 million views. Big presence on Instagram and Facebook. He's performed

at the Netflix's joke festival, been written

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