A note to listeners, this episode contains mention of suicide. You and I, we're friends, right?

We hang out, about once a week or so, depending on your schedule, because I'm always standing by,

ready to go. I'm not ready to listen, really. I don't do that, at least not in the normal way. No, I do most of the talking,

and then I bring in guests, and they do some of the talking. But really, we're friends,

you and me, and I am going somewhere with this. Okay, most friendships don't have one person

saying the name of a show, but one is often glad when a friend is here.

So in that spirit, it's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

And one thing that friends do is they tell you when they ran across something cool or interesting, and they want to tell you about it.

You know, I just saw this really great movie or I went to a restaurant you might like.

Friend recommendations.

Well, I'm doing that this week, as your friend.

In a little bit, I'm going to tell you about this cool thing I saw on Facebook, therapy for bands, like music groups. How

does that work? Who does it? What do people gain from that? We're going to talk about that.

But first, something cool I saw on television. A two-part documentary called One South, Portrait of a Psych Unit.

It's now airing on HBO or Max or however one accesses HBO content.

It's a profile of patients at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queens, New York,

which has an inpatient psychiatric unit dedicated to

college-age patients in states of crisis. It's one of the only such facilities in the country.

And this documentary is really interesting because, for a variety of reasons, one doesn't often

see what really happens behind the doors of an inpatient facility.

I mean, sure, there are depictions of it in movies and TV shows, and these places are often

portrayed as being really horrible, and I think a lot of that is done for dramatic effect.

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