The Funny Thing About Crippling Depression (with Comedian Gary Gulman)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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For most of us, our mental health took a hit during the pandemic. Gary Gulman knows a little something about severe depression. His HBO special, “The Great Depresh,” goes deep into his experience being hospitalized, getting treatment, and the ongoing road called recovery. Guest host Stephanie Wittels Wachs talks with Gary about her own bout of severe depression after losing her brother Harris Wittels, making art out of struggles with mental health, and what specific treatments helped Gary find hope and joy again.

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0:56.0	Welcome to In the Bubble. I am your guest host, Stephanie Widdle's Wax.
1:20.0	Our beloved Andy is on a much needed vacation and he has graciously let me slide into the host chair here to talk about a topic we are both passionate about.
1:31.0	Mental Health.
1:33.0	Rising rates of deaths of despair, including suicide and overdose, suggest that we are in the midst of a real mental health crisis.
1:41.0	And yet, it can be really difficult to talk about this stuff. I think most of us would agree that our mental health took a hit during the pandemic.
1:51.0	Mine certainly did. Suddenly cut off from our communities, friends, extended families.
1:56.0	I remember my kids couldn't see their grandparents for months. It was awful.
2:02.0	We were consumed with fear and anxiety, pouring over horrific news, trying to balance full-time work with full-time parenting and weighing every decision through a life and death lens.
2:15.0	It was really hard. And if you're a longtime listener of In the Bubble or you listened to my show last day, you may know that the hard stuff didn't start for me at the pandemic.
2:28.0	My brother, Harris Wittles, who was a beloved comedian, died of a heroin overdose in 2015.
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