A Toolkit for a Noisy Mind: How John Green Manages Anxiety, Depression, and Intrusive Thoughts
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John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. His most recent book is Everything Is Tuberculosis.
In this episode we talk about:
- John’s toolkit for managing thought spirals and dispair
- Why he wrote a whole book about the thing that terrifies him
- How he maintains hope in a chaotic and unfair world
- Finding the “self”
- Shame reduction through naming
- What John learned from his time as a chaplain in a pediatric hospital
- His current view of God
- And the question of how much––or how little––we should be sharing about ourselves with other people
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