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, 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 Get the 10% with Dan Harris app here Sign up for Dan's free newsletter here Follow Dan on social: Instagram , TikTok

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This episode is 59:42 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

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