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Join host John Moe (The Hilarious World of Depression) for honest, relatable, and, yes, sometimes funny conversations about mental health.

I hugged trees. Slowly, I started to heal and comedy became that outlet for me.

When I started making videos, it wasn’t about going viral. That’s what gay conversion therapy is built on: It’s abuse disguised as care and shame dressed up as salvation. Hear from comedians, musicians, authors, actors, and other top names in entertainment and the arts about living with depression, anxiety, and many other common disorders.

No shame, no stigma, and maybe a few laughs.

Like this podcast? When I turned 30, I was proud. I remember sitting in my room that night, staring at my Bible, trying to figure out what was “wrong” with me and why people were telling me my life was “sin,” pushing me further away from who I was.

I wasn’t sleeping.

But it wasn’t a phase. Subscribe to Must Reads.

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As Nurse Blake prepares for a 68-city tour, he talks about the conversion therapy his parents sent him to in order to switch him from gay to straight (it didn’t work), his eye-opening experiences with panic attacks, and the time he spent in a mental health rehab facility following his divorce. As usual I’m with my husband Brett with two T’s, and I’m going over all of my favorite things this past year.

I thought if I could take care of others, maybe I could undo some of the damage done to me. From self-diagnosing with WebMD to hitting the call light like they are on a game show — nothing is off-limits. For a long time, I called it “a Christian program,” because that sounded softer — less like a wound and more like a phase. We spotted Jeff Bezos’ mega yacht, and we ran into a bunch of nurses!

We had to journal why these thoughts were “wrong” and why we “were stronger than sin.” I was told I’d die of AIDS before 30. Depresh Mode with John Moe also features useful insights on mental health issues with experts in the field. What guests and issues would you like to have covered in a future episode? It convinces you that silence equals safety.

So I stayed silent.

Once I turned 18, I begged my parents to let me stop going.

The God they used to justify conversion therapy is not the God I know.