Here's what I'll say in regard to mental health. If you get help, you can get better.

Here's what I won't say. If you get help, you will get better. I can't promise that.

I won't say, if you get help, you'll get all the way better. Can't promise that either.

I also will not say that if you get help, you will be cured, like your mental health condition never happened.

Certainly can't promise that one. Because a mental health condition is and is not like a broken bone.

Yes, it's a health phenomenon that you never chose and is not your fault, and it can be treated by trained professionals like a broken bone.

But your mind doesn't knit together on its own if held in place, and it won't be shown in an x-ray to be healed.

So what do you do?

You do what you can.

You seek help. You may be offered something like therapy or meds or treatment that does make a difference. And then you take the win and you

move forward. There are no casts or crutches, sorry, but there can be healing and it can be significant.

It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

A lot of people hate going to the doctor, but I kind of love it.

I do.

I love it because especially when I was pregnant, okay, I loved going to the doctor because

there is always a possibility, right, that the doctor's going to come in the office and say, Ellie, we've run all the

tests and you need to go home and lay down for a very long time. That's Ellie Hino. She's a stand-up

comedian based in the Twin Cities. She's headlined all over the place,

opened for folks like Maria Bamford and Bobcat Goldthwaite. Ellie's debut album,

Soft Bones, came out earlier this year. And not too long ago, Ellie was diagnosed with ADHD,

attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder. She did the full flight of testing. She got the diagnosis,

which has led the way to a greater understanding of what was going on in her mind and what had been going on for a long time and what to do about it, how to better manage it, not solve it, manage it. She's also dealt with depression and

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