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Depresh Mode with John Moe
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An award-winning weekly mental health podcast about living with complicated minds, featuring musicians, comics, researchers, experts, authors, and actors.
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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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February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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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.
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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It'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.
February 7, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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Thank you, Michael.
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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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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Dad Rock, Minnesota, Yet Somehow Nothing About The Replacements
Also: videos are messing you up and you can't outski depression
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February 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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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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February 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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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.
February 2, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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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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February 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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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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Talking with Amanda Knox, Microdosing, Drinking Coffee, Reading Negative Reviews (not all at once)
And urging broken Minnesotans to give themselves grace
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February 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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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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Blunt talk about suicide but also a cute frowning horse that went accidentally viral
And maybe the kids need to suck it up just a bit more?
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January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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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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January 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Forgot to mention! This week's show also includes:
- On-air appearance by producer Raghu!
- Tattoo needle sounds!
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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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January 19, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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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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Complex PTSD, Yes, But Also Sleeping and Three Minutes in Paris
Don't worry, you'll see all of Paris in three minutes.
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January 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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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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January 19, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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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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Life and Health Do Not, It Turns Out, Revolve Around Hulk Hogan.
A.J Daulerio on the podcast, Minnesota is in distress, heat anxiety and depression, and jigsaw puzzles
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January 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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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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January 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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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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Two Truths to Help You In 2026 + TAYLOR SWIFT(fans' dads)
Also: bad news for content creators and good news for trashy novels
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January 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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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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The Creator Economy Has a Mental Health Crisis and the Data Is No Longer Ignorable
How constant visibility, financial instability, and algorithmic pressure are affecting creators
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January 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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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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Two hands covered in dirt.
January 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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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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Who To Blame For Your Mental Health Instead of Yourself: Sleep Apnea, Brain Cells, Social Media
Also, we have a time machine to 1992 for people who love using the word "aloe"
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December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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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December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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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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LBJ, MLK, Gorbachev, Depression, and Regret. Also a Li'l Goat Wearing People Clothes.
And we have some news on dating apps and mental health. And it ain't good!
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December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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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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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
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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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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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.
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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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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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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December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM