A note to our listeners, this episode contains discussion of suicidality.

I have two options for the beginning of this episode to see what you think.

Option A. Grief. Intense, fiery, more powerful than you could imagine style grief, is not a mental illness, but it can heavily damage your defenses. It's like not

having an immune system. So every stray virus or germ has a great shot at getting into your

system and causing problems. So the grieving person is vulnerable as hell to a mental health

condition. That's intro option A.

Intro option B, when a very popular musician who is well spoken and has been through a journey

of intense grief and mental health struggles releases a new album and calls it,

Tell my therapist, I'm fine. And the publicists for said album reach out to you about being on your mental health podcast?

Well, you say yes to that pretty quickly.

It's depression mode.

I'm John Mo.

I'm glad you're here. I want to be a rock star, I can be your all-star, someone that could go far in the end, drinking in a dive bar, driving in a fast car, sun is coming up when the party ends.

The voice you hear is Bishop Briggs.

Her song Good for Me off the new album.

Yep, tell my therapist I'm fine.

It comes out this Friday.

Bishop Briggs is an L.A.-based singer-songwriter, has released several albums, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, played Coachella.

She's probably best known for her song River, which has over half a billion plays on Spotify.

Bishop was also the winner of Season 9 on the Masked Singer.

She was dressed as Medusa.

Bishop's legal name is Sarah McLaughlin. She performs as Bishop

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