This is a mental health podcast.

Specifically, it's depresh mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

Because it's a mental health podcast, we talk a lot about different things that can cause mental health issues,

stuff that can lead to

some problems, difficult family situations at home, genetic chemical imbalance, surviving a traumatic

event, those can all cause a lot of problems. Here's a potential cause that we haven't covered

before. Spitting into a cup. Yes, spitting into a cup, but it has been leading

to a lot of depression in recent years. Spitting into a cup has led to some existential crises,

traumatic stress, strained family relationships. Spitting into a cup, my friends, has been

donking folks up. I mean, okay, it's not the spitting itself that's causing

problems. It's when you spit into the cup, you mail it off to people who test it, then they read the

DNA information, and then they tell you who you genetically are, who your parents genetically are, which might be

different than who you always believe them to be. Since the advent of home DNA testing with

services like 23 and Me or Ancestry.com, it's been happening a lot. Family secrets getting exposed,

not even exposed, ripped violently open,

affecting tons of people, generations of people. It's an existential walloping as the basic truth of your family identity is shattered. You're still you, but it can feel like you aren't

the person you thought you were and never

have been.

Eve Sturgis is a therapist in Los Angeles.

She has been really interested in this topic, so much so that she started a podcast called

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