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Guide to a Healthy Mind
A Circle of Hope

(1999)

Magic Johnson starts this tape by saying "Taking responsibility for your own health is an important challenge." Doesn't he have AIDS? Anyway, it's about depression but it's mainly for black people because white people don't get depressed and even if they do, who cares? First they tell us some "myths" about being depressed. For example, one old coot thinks "When you're having problems, you pray." Sorry, old man, but that's a myth! Take that, God. Next we meet this depressed lady who freaks out in the cereal aisle one day and runs out of the store crying. Yeah, I miss Smurfberry Crunch too. "Why don't you make yourself happy, do more around the house," says her husband. I think it's pretty obvious what her problem is. Luckily it turns out that her best friend and everyone else she has ever known or met in her entire goddamned life is depressed too, so they show her how to get the help she needs. Then during the end credits they play blues music. Thanks a lot, Circle of Hope, you fucking assholes.