The Perils and Rewards of Travel

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Taking a trip somewhere new can be wonderful: the new experiences, the exciting culture, the unusual foods. For people who deal with depression or anxiety, travel can also introduce a variety of problems. It necessarily involves getting out of the familiar and that can leave one feeling isolated, worried about negative possibilities, and unprotected in a world that sometimes doesn't work out all that great as it is. In this summer mini-sode, we hear from Jeremy Pelletier, a non-profit director and geographer who recently wrote about the pitfalls and triumphs he's experienced traveling. We also check in with Dr. Karriem Salaam from Drexel University's College of Medicine for valuable tips on what to do and not to do.

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0:00.0	It's the hilarious world of depression, special summer mini episode edition.
0:20.1	I'm John Moe and I'm still a bit groggy, a bit jet lagged because I was recently in Russia
0:27.4	for two weeks.
0:28.7	I was in a situation in Russia because God forbid I'd go somewhere warm and tropical.
0:34.8	And while I was there, I was thinking that it had been just about a year since the writer
0:39.5	and TV host Anthony Bourdain died by suicide while traveling.
0:44.3	And it made me think about traveling and mental health.
0:47.4	And again, my trip to Russia was fantastic.
0:50.5	But I saw all these ways that travel could really go wrong for people with depression.
0:55.5	I was in this sleep, gets all screwed up, I was in this place where I couldn't read any
0:59.7	street signs so I couldn't really easily get basic things that I needed.
1:05.0	Eventually I learned to site read restaurant and toilets in Russian in the Cyrillic alphabet
1:11.3	and that helped a little bit.
1:13.0	I was traveling with my son who speaks Russian, which was great, but I thought about how
1:17.5	isolating it would feel had I been traveling alone.
1:21.6	Another thing that helped is that we made sure to build in lots of down times where we
1:26.0	didn't have to use every bit of energy seeing as much of Moscow or St. Petersburg as we possibly
1:32.2	could.
1:33.2	It's not a contest, it's tourism, so we made sure to build in times to just chill out of
1:38.1	the hotel occasionally.
1:39.9	Anyway, summer is travel season and we thought it would be good to have a check-in about travel
1:45.4	and mental health, how to go where you want to go without falling apart in the process.
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