Doctor Mike
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It's a huge problem, as a matter of fact.
So mental health...
would be kind of like physical health where you only have physical therapy and you never have the gym.
So the reason that people go to the gym is not because they have a problem they're trying to solve, but because they want to be better.
They want more excellence in their life.
And that's great.
They're healthy, but they want to be better.
Whereas physical therapy generally means you're solving a problem.
You're trying to get back to the line of scrimmage.
Most of what we do with our, you know, this is how our mutual friend Peter Atiyah talks about healthcare 3.0 versus healthcare 2.0.
Healthcare 2.0 is you got a problem, let's try to solve it.
Let's get us back to the line of scrimmage.
And with the way that we think about psychology and
the way that we think about happiness per se is that people are just trying to solve their depression and anxiety as opposed to, they don't necessarily have depression and anxiety, but they want more joy.
They want more love.
They want more meaning.
They want more fulfillment and satisfaction in their lives.
They want to get down the field.
And there's so much of the world of positive psychology, but now positive psychiatry, positive philosophy that we can actually add in to the healthcare system actually.
Yeah, for sure.