Connecting Childhood Events To Your Stress Issues Today with Benjamin Wagner

The things that happened when you were young, especially the really painful things, can easily and often carry into adulthood. For documentarian, former high-powered executive, and actual Mister Rogers neighbor Benjamin Wagner, an adult life of terrible stress and substance use issues wasn’t really going to be solved until he understood more about the ripple effects of his parents’ divorce and a severe assault that occurred at an early age. To learn more about that connection and similar issues that other people face all the time, Benjamin teamed up with his brother Christopher to create Friends and Neighbors , a documentary now available on PBS, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime. In this conversation, we dig into the trauma, the effects, and how to figure out how you got to where you are and where you’re headed. Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of Maximum Fun . Check out our I’m Glad You’re Here and Depresh Mode merchandise at the brand new merch website MaxFunStore.com ! Hey, remember, you’re part of Depresh Mode and we want to hear what you want to hear about. What guests and issues would you like to have covered in a future episode? Write us at depreshmode@maximumfun.org . Depresh Mode is on BlueSky , Instagram , Substack , and you can join our Preshies Facebook group . Help is available right away. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 or 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-273-TALK Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741. International suicide hotline numbers available here: Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's MaxFunDrive! Still want to get in on the action? Follow this link to support this show (and get in on our limited-time keychain sale to benefit the Center for Constitutional Rights):

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Connecting Childhood Events To Your Stress Issues Today with Benjamin Wagner is an episode from Depresh Mode with John Moe by Maximum Fun.

This episode is 00:52:10 long.

This episode was published on May 4, 2026.

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