Let's go behind the scenes here a bit. Maybe you've always wondered how we decide what an episode of depression mode is going to be about.

Maybe you haven't, but let's just say you have. Well, there are a few different ways that we make that call.

We might get an email from a publicist offering up interviews with an author, musician, artist of some kind who has something new that relates to mental health.

And if it looks really interesting, maybe we follow up and say, sure, let's bring them on in.

Or we might be familiar with someone who we think has an interesting story to tell.

So we go after them.

See if we know people in common.

Maybe there's a rep of some sort that we can contact.

Another way we get an idea for an episode is by just reading, keeping up with mental health

news, big research breakthroughs, important news developments that we think might have a bearing

on how mental health is addressed in our society going forward. Ultimately, all of that results

in basically two different types of episodes. Profile episodes or newsy ones, the personal mental

health journey or the more informational and by extension more impersonal episode. The personal ones don't get newsy, the newsy ones don't get personal.

But once in a while, we get both.

We get a little chocolate in our peanut butter.

Welcome to this week.

It's depression mode.

I'm John Moe.

I am glad you're here.

I'm I'm glad you're here.

The I'm glad you're here. So I put out our Depression Mode newsletter every Monday, stuff about this week's episode, plus

stories that you may want to know about.

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