“I’ve done a lot of soul searching and thinking about my brain, and how it works.” Vaden Todd Lewis is in a different state of mind now. He didn’t land there after some sort of epiphany. He plodded through the chaos, the depression, uncertainty, and grief, fueled in recent years by the pandemic and personal loss, and longer term by the struggles with mental health he’s lived with for decades. “I changed everything,” the Toadies frontman adds. “I wanted to take apart my thinking with depression and the weird, fucked-up thoughts I was having. I always just assumed that’s just part of being creative, and you have to suffer and all this shit.” After starting therapy in 2022 and a light dose of medication, Lewis says he’s found a better balance. “It helps me stay even keel, rather than all the way in the dirt or flying around like a nut,” shares Lewis, who admits that he postponed getting help for years for fear of losing his ability to write.…