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In 2020, The Airborne Toxic Event‘s Mikel Jollett published a well-received memoir, Hollywood Park. As part of a deep-dive into the singer’s life, the book chronicled his mental health journey — a topic he also discussed with SPIN backstage at BeachLife Festival in May.

Jollett recalls how, as a kid growing up near LAX, he and his “skate-punk” friends would consistently find trouble. They would “sneak out at night, do drugs, and destroy property” — behaviors that, looking back, he attributes to anger and a need for “attention.” Jollett’s brother was into “heavy drugs” around age 14, and his father and uncles had gone to prison. Seeing that happen at a young age motivated Jollett to focus on school — but even if he seemed to be doing well as an “over-achiever,” he was also battling anxiety.

“I had a shrink twice a week for five years,” he says. “You’ve gotta talk about stuff. You’ve gotta externalize it, and [then] you can kinda look at it. […] You’ve gotta get it outside of yourself and look at it, and [then] you can start to make new decisions. […] Instead of being stuck inside of some little prison in your head, now there’s some new choices that can be made. I think that’s true for anybody.”

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