A Toolkit for a Noisy Mind: How John Green Manages Anxiety, Depression, and Intrusive Thoughts

Plus, how the bestselling author writes his way out of despair.

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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