We won't play the whole song. It's super long, but we will play the very, very beginning.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide.

No escape from reality.

Open your eyes.

Look up to the skies and see.

Cut it there.

Not doing the scaramouche or mama parts.

Just that first part.

It's what I've thought for a while about mental health issues,

depression, anxiety, panic attacks, thought about it even more after this week's interview.

Are these problems a distortion of reality, a distortion of the truth,

a work of imagination, just fantasy? Or is this the real life?

Do we get immobilized by depression and anxiety? Because we see the truth about how the world is.

We see the truth of the traumas we've been through. In short, is it me or is it the world? Me or them? It's an important question to at least consider, even if it's not easily answered, because it applies to how we

address these interesting minds that many of us seem to be stuck with. If it's fantasy, if these conditions cause us to see a distortion of the world,

we try to treat our minds by jolting ourselves back to a healthy and pleasant normal, if that

exists. If we allow that we're having a rational response to the world and our personal trauma,

then we're saying we are the normal ones.

And treatment becomes a way of dealing with that reality, grim as it may be, and managing

ourselves so we're equipped for that landscape.

A lot of mental health medicine and treatment operates on option one, that we're getting

...