A note to our listeners, this mini episode contains discussions of suicide. Hi, welcome to a special

Max Fun Drive mini episode of Depression Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here. It's a stripped

down episode. There's no music. There's no guests. It isn't really even a script.

I just want to talk to you a little bit. I've been thinking during the Max Fun Drive about the idea of support.

It's a word that we use a lot. We need your help. Support the show. Support our efforts. Support these podcasts. Support Max Fun.

And I do like the word support because it can mean a lot of different things. There's the money to make something like this.

There's the financial support, the actual dollars. And those are great. We love those dollars

because making a show does cost money. Having people

working on the show, having the equipment, dollars help a lot. But there's also the matter of what

the dollars and donations represent because it's people voting with their wallets to keep a show like this going, to keep this particular show going, to keep a dialogue going, to keep open, honest conversation about mental health going, to keep the questions that I ask of guests coming and going, I suppose,

you know, to bring in these people and get perspectives, get insight, get stories, get

resonant stories of what people have been through that you can recognize.

So the dollars, those donations, that kind of support is crucial.

It makes a big difference.

A softer kind of support, a non-financial support, has also been crucial, really, in making this show.

All the letters, the emails, the direct messages that people come up to me or send me.

It's huge.

People saying, yes, this show has made a difference in my life.

You know, thank you for talking about this kind of thing. I've sent this around to people I know.

It's wonderful. And it gives me strength. It's like finding, it's like being in a video game and finding a little piece of food,

a little piece of fruit or something, and then you can power up and be a little stronger.

Because, you know, the show is difficult. To have these conversations is hard. To listen to them is hard.

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