Now Available!  Depression - The Musical CD
recorded 2008 at Studio Hot Spot.  Run time approx. 50 minutes. This CD includes eight original songs and comedy material written out of Brian's lifelong journey with chronic depression.

Brian riffs on the mental health care system in "Paperwork Blues", which you can download here.

Brian also makes an appearance as the rapper "D-Preshun" here.

If you like these hilarious takes on clinical depression, click here to buy Depression - The Musical.

Wetzel Productions offers shows, presentations, workshops, and products on the topics of clinical depression, dual diagnosis (depression/addiction) and bi-polar disorder for colleges and universities, conferences, corporate events and trainings, high schools, professional organizations and mental health consumer groups.

Brian Wetzel was a professional comedian and speaker whose career and personal life were absorbed by his 20 year struggle with clinical depression and subsequent addiction.

Finally, after ending up at an emergency psychiatric clinic, Brian had to make direct eye contact with depression just to survive. After a visit with a psychiatrist who had a thick French accent, he started finding humor in a disorder that had once threatened his life.

In his autobiographical one man show, "Side by Side: A Journey With Depression - a funny look at serious survival" and his other presentations, Brian blends his experiences with depression with his stage experience and takes his audiences on a unique journey of laughter, truth, and hope. By walking side by side with the affliction, he has learned to survive, strive, and move forward.

Tom Wootton was a successful corporate trainer who was mis-diagnosed for years until he was finally diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Though his own introspection and turning his skills as a trainer and workshop leader on the topic, Tom has developed a book "The Bipolar Advantage" and workshops and presentations that help professionals and those struggling with bi-polar disorder, to understand how to live and even thrive through the condition.