Clarence Jones

Has there been, you know, over your illustrious career, have you seen mental health, shall we say, morphing more into therapy-oriented treatment, quote-unquote? Yeah. whereby it's family therapy or the loss of somebody therapy, whether it's through perhaps death or the loss of a loved one or a boyfriend, a girlfriend, what have you.

Has there been, you know, over your illustrious career, have you seen mental health, shall we say, morphing more into therapy-oriented treatment, quote-unquote? Yeah. whereby it's family therapy or the loss of somebody therapy, whether it's through perhaps death or the loss of a loved one or a boyfriend, a girlfriend, what have you.

Are we seeing more therapy-oriented treatment per se in the mental health arena, or is it really a mixed bag?

Are we seeing more therapy-oriented treatment per se in the mental health arena, or is it really a mixed bag?

It depends what day.

It depends what day.

A couple of things that come to mind. Can you talk a little bit? One sec, Clarence. It's how you have perceived, Mike, the field of mental health connecting with other fields in medicine. Like, for instance, mental health issues and sleep. There are a lot of sleep specialists. Or post-surgical mental health issues.

A couple of things that come to mind. Can you talk a little bit? One sec, Clarence. It's how you have perceived, Mike, the field of mental health connecting with other fields in medicine. Like, for instance, mental health issues and sleep. There are a lot of sleep specialists. Or post-surgical mental health issues.

For instance, somebody has, or even a medical issue, somebody's had a heart attack and now they've got some mental health issues to deal with. How is it that the field of mental health has, I guess, integrated itself with other medical fields over the course of your career that you've seen? I think maybe not, or maybe not.

For instance, somebody has, or even a medical issue, somebody's had a heart attack and now they've got some mental health issues to deal with. How is it that the field of mental health has, I guess, integrated itself with other medical fields over the course of your career that you've seen? I think maybe not, or maybe not.

Yeah, or even pain, just relative pain, you know, whether it be, you know, a toothache or, you know, tennis elbow or whatever, you know, pain can have some mental health issues, I can imagine, especially if it's chronic oriented pain.

Yeah, or even pain, just relative pain, you know, whether it be, you know, a toothache or, you know, tennis elbow or whatever, you know, pain can have some mental health issues, I can imagine, especially if it's chronic oriented pain.

Clarence.

Clarence.

To a certain extent, it almost seems like a swamp of so many things in the mental health arena. Yet, we're getting better, which is encouraging. And I should underscore that for our listeners. It's getting better in the sense of how we identify it, how we treat it, how we connect it with different providers of care, etc.,

To a certain extent, it almost seems like a swamp of so many things in the mental health arena. Yet, we're getting better, which is encouraging. And I should underscore that for our listeners. It's getting better in the sense of how we identify it, how we treat it, how we connect it with different providers of care, etc.,

regardless of the fact of access, which we will get into for sure in our third show with you, Mike. One of the things I do wanna bring up is some of the incredible statistics that our research crew has done. So just to give our listening audience a little flavor here, from February 1 to the 13th, so two week period of time,

regardless of the fact of access, which we will get into for sure in our third show with you, Mike. One of the things I do wanna bring up is some of the incredible statistics that our research crew has done. So just to give our listening audience a little flavor here, from February 1 to the 13th, so two week period of time,

in 2023 so that was recently yeah 28.3 percent of adults in Minnesota reported symptoms of anxiety or some kind of a depressive disorder compared with 30 32 percent of adults in the United States regardless that wow okay so you know and Mike you brought this up you know Certainly during the pandemic, we saw a lot of differences in depression, et cetera.

in 2023 so that was recently yeah 28.3 percent of adults in Minnesota reported symptoms of anxiety or some kind of a depressive disorder compared with 30 32 percent of adults in the United States regardless that wow okay so you know and Mike you brought this up you know Certainly during the pandemic, we saw a lot of differences in depression, et cetera.