Welcome to Hollywood–that’s not smog, it’s depression. The entertainment industry currently registers somewhere on the disaster scale between slowdown and apocalypse. For many in the business who are either unemployed or terrified that they soon will be, therapists offer support and consolation. That means they serve as a good barometer for the town’s mental health. So what’s the view from the therapist’s chair?

“It feels like the end of days,” says Dennis Palumbo, a psychotherapist with patients predominately in the entertainment industry. “I've been doing this for 31 years now, and I've never seen this level of despair among creative people in the industry,” he says. “There’s a level of depression and anxiety pretty much unparalleled.”

Film and television production has plunged in

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