Cohen Miles-Rath

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Cohen Miles-Rath: How One Man Transformed Crisis into a Call for Change · 22 May 2025 podcast

So I'm always trying to be open to hearing the multiple perspectives and striving for the best solution, which I'm not sure what is. But I think we can get there.

My goals over the three to five years is first, I really just want to get my story out there, which it's already been out there, but I'm excited for my book publication. And I'm really hoping that continue the momentum with that, get more speaking engagements because of it. This summer, I'm actually going to a conference out in Texas.

It's called Empath Consulting, and they've created an alternative to emergency crises for mental health crises. So I'm really interested in learning more about that model that they've started to implement in a couple of states and share my perspective there to help them fine tune that type of model.

And if it works, I would like to just continue getting in front of those type of mental professionals, people in the field, people doing this work. So that way they could find ways to better fine tune what they're doing and advocate for those changes that they need in their own communities. Because every community is different. Every state is different.

It's just basically to continue that momentum and hopefully just get more opportunities to do this. Would I love to write another book? Yes. That will hopefully come down the line right now. It's just get my book out there and start speaking as much as I can.

Yeah, when I share my experience, I go back to childhood because I go step by step. I'm not diving into everything in my life, but I'm touching on these key points from childhood to college to when I first started facing mental illness, when my signs and symptoms got worse, when I got intervention in hospital, and then when I faced a crisis and the whole recovery portion.

And I've done that because... In this framework of mental health field and how we can better approach mental health, it is just so complex. So when I talk about my childhood, I talk about some adverse childhood experiences, ACEs, something that has a lot of research behind it that shows that it's a risk factor for future mental health challenges and so forth.

I'm using my expertise that I've learned in mental health advocacy in my story throughout the time so that way it's not just, oh, this was just my experience, but there is research and knowledge behind all of this that I use to show how there were so many opportunities prior to that incident in which I could have gotten the help or my help could have been more effective.

to where the incident could have been prevented and it did not have to get to that crisis point for me to finally accept my mental illness. And I hope that when people hear that, they're like, they're thinking like, oh, I could do something now if I'm struggling. I could help someone else who I know is struggling so that way helping them could get more effective.

So they're never at that potential crisis point or even like getting to a point where they're just really struggling and no one is willing to help.

I always say that recovery is not just possible, but probable in the right circumstances. We, as family, as friends, as coworkers, as parents, as just people in the community, we have that opportunity and space to help create those circumstances in which people are more likely to get the help they need. And that, to me, speaks to that good side of this conversation and this hopeful aspect to it.

Yes, we can dive into specific policies that might change certain aspects in the systems that would help improve. But that's one piece of this. There's so much more to just how our network, our social network and our communities and our interpersonal relationships and even ourselves can do to start making that change within and be in better positions where people,

If we're ever in a position of facing a mental health challenge or even experiencing mental illness, we're better positioned to manage it and to change it and to support it. So, like, I know a big component for me, and I'm interested in people you've also talked to. Like, there's a big responsibility on my own.

Ever since I'd gotten my diagnosis and went through that experience, like, I have a responsibility to manage that. I do. And if I ever struggle with it, I go to my family, I go to my dad, I go to my girlfriend, I talk to people because I know that I can rely on them or have them be there to support me through it if I'm struggling to manage it myself.

Getting to that point of acceptance for the individual is a very challenging thing. And I wouldn't want anyone to go through such a severe crisis to finally have that awareness of it, but rather to creating completely different circumstances long before that ever happened so that a way they're more likely to accept it initially.

I think one of the most important things to tell people about this is, there's so much, but I think... conversations around mental health have increased significantly, especially since COVID had happened. And there's been so many positives with that. And I think the conversations have just been amazing. And I think this is an important piece.

There needs to be recognition of mental illness is a bit different than a mental health challenge when you start to face certain signs and symptoms of mental illness. And it does take a different approach than having a fight with someone or going through a job loss or something like that.

There are certain aspects of mental illness that not everyone faces, but a lot of people do just based on certain predispositions or other factors. So I think there still is a lot of stigma with certain mental illness, particularly with schizophrenia, psychosis and so forth.

So as the greater public is having a conversation about mental health, I just want to make sure that we're also talking about these types of diagnoses and these types of signs and symptoms that look different for every person, but also that we need to talk about that as well. And we need to be open about that too, because anyone can face a mental illness. One in five people do.

So we just kind of make sure we're taking care of those who are most vulnerable and struggle potentially the most.

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