Dr. Alok (Dr. K)

So in the system of psychiatry, we'll sort of diagnose people with different kinds of things.

So their internal experience, one person may be very sad, one person could be very anxious, one person may have difficulty focusing their attention.

We'll call this major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

How do you can you help us understand?

So find that there's a certain nutritional makeup that makes our body.

I think you also alluded to we're not just an accumulation of physical substances, but mental impressions as well.

And if I missed that, please let me know.

But how do you understand why people end up in a different kind of, quote unquote, mental illness?

I think it's the mind.

Yeah, so let me ask you a couple questions.

So when you say, you know, you ask the question, would you choose to suffer or be blissful?

So it sounds like you're separating out the youth.

I think I would choose, yeah, blissfulness.

Yeah.

So a couple of questions about that.

One is, what is the you if it's not the mind?

And secondly, what makes it hard for people to... So people, I think, think they are choosing blissfulness all the time, right?

So just like you said, everyone's going to choose blissfulness.

So how is it that people are striving for pleasantness, striving for blissfulness, and end up in suffering and compulsion?

How does someone bridge that gap?