Jake Duzsik (HEALTH) on OCD, Trent Reznor & the apocalypse

Jake Duzsik of HEALTH joins Occupy The Void with Xtina for a raw conversation about mental health, creativity and the tension between destruction and expression. He reflects on living with obsessive compulsive disorder, the role drugs and alcohol have played in his life, and how music became both an outlet and a lifeline. There’s a clear thread through it all: the question of whether suffering fuels art, or if that’s just a story we tell ourselves.

The conversation moves through obsession, collaboration and the reality of making music in a world that feels increasingly unstable, from working with Trent Reznor to confronting nihilism, technology and cultural overload. Jake’s perspective is sharp, honest and at times uncomfortable, cutting through clichés around creativity and mental health. This is a conversation about intensity, survival and what it means to keep making something real in a disconnected world.

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