Josh Ritter On Music, Depression, Religious Crises, and Bipolar II

Josh Ritter is best known for his music, with eleven albums
released over the past 24 years and concerts all over the world.
He’s also an accomplished novelist and painter. In this
wide-ranging interview, Josh goes into great depth about his
mental health and his evolving understanding of it. He discusses
the religious and spiritual crisis of his adolescence and the
depression that followed it. Josh also fills us in on the
alternating high and low moods he’s experienced in more recent
years and how he has come to understand the condition known as
bipolar II. On a lighter note, he also talks about the challenge
of playing music to tourists in Scotland when “the Braveheart
guys” show up.


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