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

Another less serious note to our listeners, even if you don't like heavy metal music at all,

you should really listen to this episode, because you'll find it interesting and rewarding and fun.

Look, if you really want to, you can blame someone for having a mental health condition.

You can do that. You won't get arrested. You can place the blame for their condition on a personal,

moral failing or a conscious choice that you imagine that person made to have a disorder,

like anyone would choose to have a major depressive disorder, like they opted for OCD,

as if they selected substance use disorder off a menu, said, yes, please, one of those.

You can blame those people.

Hell, you can blame someone for having cancer, too, if you want. But if you're going to blame someone for what's wrong with them,

well, one, you're kind of a jerk. And two, you're going to be wrong. People don't choose mental

illnesses, because who would? instead of blaming someone for having

something wrong with their mental health maybe apply that energy to celebrating people for

doing something about it applaud their efforts to get healthier to change their fates to try

even if they don't always succeed.

Cheer that. In the case of substance use disorder, applaud their attempts to step away from the

substance and stop hurting other people, and stop hurting themselves. It's depression mode. I'm

John Moe. I'm glad you're here. And you know, there's a lot of different

kinds of music in the world. It's not all just gentle, acoustic guitar stuff.

He breaks upon the modern age

That's to the grave By by the very heavy heavy metal group Lamb of God, after 2022 album

Omen's. The voice you hear there is Randy Bly, the band's lead singer and lyricist,

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