Welcome to going mental. This is your host Eileen Kelly. I'm interested in the things many of us face but don't always talk about.

After spending five months at McLean Hospital working on my mental health, I'm back.

A little more insightful and with plenty of stories to share.

Expanding on my usual topics of sexuality and intimacy, this season takes into account

everything I learned during my stay.

I'll be bringing together a wide range of guests, some beloved, some contentious,

to discuss work, love, and the bizarre phenomenon that is modern life.

Join me as we try to make sense of it all.

On today's episode I'm joined by P.E. Moskowitz, a journalist and writer who has

written for publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. They also run a

newsletter called Mental Health spelled H ELL T. where they challenge popular

pro-individualistic views on depression, diagnosis, and our emotional lives.

Can you introduce yourself to start off?

Yeah, I'm P.E. Moskowitz. I'm a writer and journalist. I run mental health, which is a sub-stack on mental health, but more broadly, it's about how the world affects our brains and trying to get away from this idea that we are all chemically

imbalanced and instead looking at the kind of a material impacts that that affect us in the world and yeah I write a lot about my own mental health I've struggled with mental health throughout the years and I yeah so it comes from a personal place but trying to relate it to other

people yeah unlike the greater world which we'll get more into Can you tell me a little bit about your upbringing

and just like where you're from?

Sure. I was born and raised in New York City

in downtown Manhattan, very hippieish parents.

They were some of the first like artsy loft people

and went to public schools my whole life.

And that really informed a lot of what I think about the world

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