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An award-winning weekly mental health podcast about living with complicated minds, featuring musicians, comics, researchers, experts, authors, and actors. https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/depresh-mode/
Latest newsletter is out! A day late. I had to drive to Chicago. All things go (x2).
Info on eating disorders, movie stars, science, marijuana, overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, and the bleakest shit imaginable happening in San Francisco.
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This week, Alexandra Paul (from Baywatch!) tells her story of modeling, Hollywood, and eating disorders plus Dr. Cynthia Bulik an update on the newly discovered *genetic component* that takes shame and blame off people with those disorders (and their moms).
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This week's FREE newsletter has some non-adorable news on dating apps and mental health and how kids are doing, especially in Minnesota (amid The Horrors).
Also: the kiss-and-cry thing with skaters? That's pretty fucked up.
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Big show today! First, we look at the high rates of depression and anxiety among dating app users, which might be explained by HOW they're looking for love.
Then: the short and long-term mental health impact of the ICE surge on MN children and how we can improve it.
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. @nikostratis.com found a path to her true self with the aid of dad rock. This after years of despair, glasswork, close contact w/ violent transphobes, alcoholism, cheap cars, time in the Yukon and, yep, depression. She's a brilliant writer. This is a great episode.
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John here. Wow, I wish I knew. I think it can be helpful to talk about the individual things going on and what they mean. How politics enters into it, the economy, pandemic. I never promise my kids that everything will get better but I assure them that things will change.
09.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's been a many long years of mentally trying times, with no end in sight, but I know @depreshmode.bsky.social helps get me through the darker moments. Feel empowered for your own struggles, through stories of others working through their own. @johnmoe.bsky.social is great and entertaining as host.
07.02.2026 03:34 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Thank you, Michael.
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Our latest (FREE!) newsletter has a debate about the moon that I really want you to see. Also Dad Rock and gender identity, Olympic skiing, and the danger of watching ICE videos. But honestly, that moon thing. Go watch that.
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The ICE surge is having a huge effect on mental health in Minnesota. People who've never struggled now are. And those with severe mental illness are at real mortal risk.
A special episode with Marcus Schmit of NAMI Minnesota today. Out today because it couldn't wait.
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Also on this week's show, host @johnmoe.bsky.social, who lives in Minnesota, talks about the day to day falling apart of his fellow citizens, why it makes total sense, and why giving yourself grace is so crucial.
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A deep and fascinating conversation with @amandaknox.com this week about going through trauma (a friend being murdered, Amanda wrongly convicted of it, years in Italian jail, freed), who she became on the other side, and why she has returned to Italy.
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Our latest (FREE!) newsletter has info on our talk with @amandaknox.com, the Minnesota situation, microdosing's bad grade, and why very short videos are donking up our young people.
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John here. Had to talk about this week's show about suicide and Minnesota events in this week's free newsletter. So at the last minute I included a story about a stitching accident that led to a viral hit stuffed toy of a frowning horse called Cry-Cry-Horse.
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Clancy Martin remembered wanting to die at 2 years old. He attempted suicide at 6 and many times since. He is strongly dedicated to helping you not do that.
Join us for a direct, honest, and very helpful talk about suicide. One of our most important episodes ever.
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Forgot to mention! This week's show also includes:
- On-air appearance by producer Raghu!
- Tattoo needle sounds!
We can offer you insight on complex PTSD in the latest (FREE!) newsletter, sure, but we can also show you the entire history of Paris in three minutes. So click here and enjoy that. You deserve that. I mean, come on.
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You carry childhood with you forever. You gotta. Journalist/producer Stephanie Foo's involved abuse, and neglect, resulting in complex PTSD. We have an amazing talk about what that condition means, how she investigated her case, and what happened at This American Life.
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Latest free newsletter has an update on how we're holding up in Minnesota (poorly), how A.J. Daulerio is doing (pretty well), and what puppies do to jigsaw puzzles (well, you can figure that out).
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A great conversation with A.J. Daulerio of Small Bow podcast and newsletter, formerly of Gawker and Deadspin, about booze, drugs, bipolar, suicide, and trying to not be defined by something that happened ten years ago involving Hulk Hogan.
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Latest (FREE! Subscribe!) DepMo newsletter has great news on comfort reading, not so good news on how your favorite content creator is feeling, and SO MANY DADS DOING GOOD THINGS.
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Remember when "creator" was a job title only God had?
Maybe God can handle the pressure of it because humans sure can't:
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Two hands covered in dirt.
Two things can be true at the same time.
We can live in terrifying times that are corrosive to our shared mental health AND we can stand on the brink of just so many breakthroughs that are cause for great hope.
No guest this week. Just John guiding you into 2026.
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It's easy to blame your mental health issues on your own weak character. Our latest (FREE! Subscribe!) has other culprits, including sleep apnea (seriously, check for that) and brain cells. Plus, stuff about @mikedougherty.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social.
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We're taking a little holiday time so we're bringing back a fascinating episode with @mikedoughty.bsky.social. If you haven't heard it, please listen. Fascinating talk full of surprises and hope.
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This week's FREE newsletter has a deep dive into this week's podcast episode, bleak news on dating apps, and also a Wallace & Gromit video for you to enjoy. Yeah, kind of a rollercoaster. Again: free! Subscribe!
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To recap, Tom Johnson: is 84 years old was born in poverty, sold watermelons with his dad out of a truck wrote well enough for a newspaper editor to put him through college and grad school worked for LBJ in the White House starting in his early 20s broke the news to LBJ that MLK was shot became publisher of the LA Times and president of CNN loaned Gorbachev a pen he used to sign the paperwork dissolving the Soviet Union dealt with severe depression at a time when he was raised to see it as a weakness, treated it anyway is full of regrets about all the time spent on his career at the expense of his family is my guest on the show today
A really important episode today, unlike any we've done before. Tom Johnson, who had a front row seat for so much history, talks about his career, his suicidal depression, and his regrets.
We can't force you to listen, WOULD if we could, but we hope you do.
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Tom Johnson: is 84 years old was born in poverty, sold watermelons with his dad out of a truck wrote well enough for a newspaper editor to put him through college and grad school worked for LBJ in the White House starting in his early 20s broke the news to LBJ that MLK was shot became publisher of the LA Times and president of CNN loaned Gorbachev a pen he used to sign the paperwork dissolving the Soviet Union dealt with severe depression at a time when he was raised to see it as a weakness, treated it anyway is full of regrets about all the time spent on his career at the expense of his family is my guest on the podcast on Monday I am so excited to bring you this episode.
Too much here to put in one Bsky post so here's a screenshot from what I put on the Preshies group on Facebook.
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Been writing this FREE newsletter for years. May have finally written the perfect headline and subheadline:
GOOD NEWS on Anger, Home Depression Treatment, Mental Health Funding
Also: chimps are putting sticks in their butts for fashion and we have that story too
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Your anger is something to be understood, not feared.
In fact, it's a feature. not a bug.
It's your brain's way of alerting you to injustice, against you, against loved ones, against society.
We unpack anger and what to do with it this week with Dr. Ryan Martin.
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