Some of us, not all of us, but I'd say most of us, have to at some point, go to work.

Maybe an office, maybe a restaurant, a school, a hospital.

There are almost always coworkers involved once you get there.

There is typically, for almost everyone, a boss or several bosses. Even if you work from home,

there are generally other people who exist in your work world, as faces on a Zoom call or

data bits forming an email or two or a billion emails. There is very often a bureaucracy in play at work, sometimes an efficient one,

sometimes a very frustrating one. And I'll say it, and I've said it before, because it's

important to remember, work is weird. Jobs are weird. We live in a society where survival means work, exchanging our labor for many hours, doing pretty much the same thing over and over again each week, in order to have the food, shelter, and clothing we require. Not saying it's unnatural, but to be fair, I'm probably

implying that it's unnatural. The whole work thing can be challenging. Even more challenging

if you have an interesting mind, a tricky brain, a mental health condition that makes you

function differently than the normies.

If there are even normies, I'm going to try to help you out with all that.

This week, that's part of my job.

I'm at work right now.

I make a podcast.

It's Depression Mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

Music I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here. Megan Delp is the director of workplace mental health for Nami, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

She's here, we're here, to try to shed a little wisdom and insight into the whole work and mental health issue.

Megan Delp, welcome to Depression Mode.

Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here.

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