Dr. Chloe Carmichael

I love this conversation.

And to close out with my final thoughts, the thing I want people to know, and I feel like this conversation has illustrated, is that free speech is good for mental health.

So that's why I wrote this book.

And there's three main ways, which is cognitively.

So by us all talking here, and Dr. Drew, like you said, we're just trying to get a little loose-lipped and talk about things and say things that have been taboo that maybe we've been pushing down as a society.

And then when we can't speak clearly and have open conversations, it's hard to really get our arms around the facts of what's really going on.

So even just through

open dialogue like this, we can start to just, you know, become clear and conscious like that Tish Hyman, like she's super clear.

And then the emotional benefits of free speech, we have emotional regulation.

Like it felt good, I think, for us to just connect and say what we really felt.

And then the third is the cognitive and emotional.

They add up to social support.

We have more authentic, high quality social support

when we can be real with each other.

So thanks for the opportunity to really live that out with you guys tonight.

Thanks.