Dr. Alok Kanojia

One more evidence-based example of this is we're seeing the prevalence of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, addictions, body dysmorphia, basically everything is getting worse.

And so one weird thing that started to happen is as we've talked more about feelings,

There's something called a transdiagnostic factor, which we can get into.

I don't know if you're familiar with these or not.

So if you look at like all of the mental illnesses, there are certain attributes that are a risk factor for multiple mental illnesses.

So a good example of transdiagnostic factors are perfectionism and rumination.

So rumination –

doesn't make you depressed, doesn't necessarily make you anxious.

But if you have a high index of rumination, you are more likely to have a major depressive disorder.

You're more likely to have an anxiety disorder.

Does that kind of make sense?

If you are perfectionistic, you are more likely to be depressed.

You are more likely to be anxious.

So there's one interesting transdiagnostic factor, which has gotten way worse, which is something called distress tolerance.

So human beings' capacity to sit with things and tolerate things

that they do not find comfortable is starting to tank.

And as that starts to tank, we're seeing just an explosion of mental illness.

What you said, there is no roadmap.

That happens to be true and it happens to be wrong.

So I know it's confusing.