Dr. Max & Justin's tenth episode takes a more casual and personal approach to what depression is and what it means to lose connection with ourselves, others and our environment. Celebrate the tenth episode by liking, commenting or even subscribing to this series! The social engagement is what keeps this series going and not only that, purposeful dialogue is what matters and that's the very reason this podcast was started in the first place.

Dr. Max and Justin breakdown everything that depression isn't in order to understand this powerful and emotionally driven human response to grief. The creator Justin mentions is @itsme.lisap (Lisa Pontius) on Instagram, if you'd like to follow a heartwarming account navigating a woman's journey after the loss of her husband.

Everything we think we know about mental health is most likely incorrect. Especially if we are gathering too much verbiage from the old school game of telephone we know today as social media. Even the occasional self-help book can steer us away from core and definitive meanings in the world of psychology. Humans often take words that sound like they apply to them and tend to self-diagnose, often changing the integrity of what a word means, such as ANXIETY. Is it something you have or just something you feel? Both? Let's break it down as Dr. Max defines what the word actually means. It could be the key to fixing those anxious moments a lot of us feel from day to day.