Dr. Caroline Leaf

To say you have clinical depression or clinical anxiety is one of the most unscientific statements of our age and has created a huge problem where people are now backing way more with mental health, not because mental health is on the rise.

but because the mismanagement of mental health is on the rise.

We're not allowing people to talk about the story in the forest.

We're just saying, oh, signal of depression, five symptoms, you can't sleep, you can't get out of bed, you're feeling whatever, suicidal, whatever.

Okay, diagnosis, label, treatment is mainly medication at the current stage is the gold standard.

Some therapy, if you're lucky.

And that very often the therapy is putting a Band-Aid on the wound because they don't deal with the whole origin story.

That's terrible.

What we have to do is we have to say, okay, so there is the signal.

There is this emotion of depression.

It's consistent in your life or anxiety or both.

Very often it's comorbid.

And terror and despair and anger and a whole bunch of others.

It's never just one.

So all of this is giving you power and giving you control, shifting the power balance.

When you do this gather in this way, and I'll finish the other three in a moment, you are making 1400 neurophysiological responses work for you and not against you.

Your blood vessels around your heart are dilating, which is sending blood flow and oxygen to your brain.

That's increasing your ability to think more creatively.

It's decreasing impulsivity.

I can go on and on and on.