Everything was a problem everything seemed so hard and I just pushed through it because I grew up at a time where that's what you were supposed to do

Suck it up man suck it up and so I got to a place where it was literally killing me and I went and saw a

professional and they were like yeah we can help you with that man we just and as a result now when I feel happy and I'm in a like social setting

I'm not faking it anymore you know and and some people were like I wish you

would go back to faking it,

because you're a little munch. You're a little munch. to Star Talk, your place in the universe

where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now.

This is Star Talk Special Edition.

Neil degrass Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.

And as you know, for a special edition,

we have Gary O'Reilly.

Gary, how you doing, ma'am?

Hey, Neil, I'm good, man.

All right.

And of course we got Chuck, how you doing, ma'am.

Hey, I'm doing well, man, thanks for asking.

All right, all right, we love love you check. Today we're going to talk about something I don't think we've talked about before.

I'm going to talk about depression. Something that we all know about it afflicts so many of us and Gary what

how did you put this show together? Well we started off thinking about

seasonal depression, because, you know, we're recording this, it's January, and it just makes everybody feel less vibrant.

And then we realized that, you know you know what there's more to this

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