{"id":397,"date":"2020-08-18T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/?p=397"},"modified":"2020-10-15T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:00:32","slug":"ep-9-the-funny-thing-about-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/ep-9-the-funny-thing-about-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 9: The Funny Thing About Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) sounds scary&#8230;but is it? This week, Imani talks with comedian Gary Gulman, who underwent ECT to treat severe depression. Plus, Imani and Gary compare notes on the way depression has affected both of their lives over the years. Gary&#8217;s hour-long comedy special, &#8216;The Great Depresh,&#8217; is out on HBO and HBO Max.\u00a0Keep up with Dr. Imani on Instagram\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/doctor.imani\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">@doctor.imani<\/a>\u00a0and on Twitter\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/doctor_imani\" target=\"_blank\">@doctor_imani<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-spotify wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: The Funny Thing About Depression\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/1uGEAXVuiTTFiJsTGJZh35?si=iqZVKgXXT7ax0Xaf5oTlLw\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Imani talks with comedian Gary Gulman, who underwent ECT to treat severe depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[37,18,19,11,13,43,42,23,22,41,45,47,46,9,14,17,35,10,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/isom-ep-9-featured-image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imanistateofmind.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}