Hey, I just wanted to drop into the feed here a little bit and say welcome to the new listeners.

It seems that we've received a lot of new traffic, a lot of new listeners to the show,

and that's great. Welcome to the show. It's Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

I say that on every episode, and we always play the music after I say it. So here's the music.

That's Red Miller doing music there.

Thanks, Red.

Depression Mode is a show about mental health for everybody. It's not for just a

limited section of the population known as people with mental illness, because I'm not sure

that really is a segment of the population. No, I think it's everybody. This show is for everyone,

because mental health

is an issue for everyone. If you've got a mind, if you have a brain writing around in your head,

and I think that you do, there's a really good chance you're going to have to deal with that

brain becoming kind of, well, we like to say, interesting at some point.

Issues like depression and anxiety, things like trauma and the stress of trauma,

the response to trauma, there's a real good chance that's going to appear in your life at some point.

Frankly, there's a real good chance it already has. The idea of being a person

without a mental health issue ever just seems really improbable to me. In the same way that you

wouldn't think of yourself or think of anyone as being a person who has never or will never

have a physical health issue.

Oh, you can be a healthy person in good shape, but you're going to catch a cold at some point.

You're vulnerable to the flu or an infection of some kind.

You're going to sprain an ankle, have your back get screwed up.

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