While the acclaimed musician Emma Swift had experienced painful periods of depression in the past, fed by grief or the first Trump presidency, her psychotic break and mental breakdown in 2023 was new territory. But says there’s no real way of knowing for sure why it happened for sure, which made it all the more frightening. We talk to her about the breakdown and about the music that came out of it in a revealing conversation that is both honest and harrowing. Hey, remember, you’re part of Depresh Mode and we want to hear what you want to hear about. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 or 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-273-TALKCrisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741.International suicide hotline numbers available here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines