Dr. Gabor Maté

It's mysterious.

It's not mysterious.

These kids are no longer having their developmental needs met.

They feel alone and desperate and scared.

And the drug use is on the rise and addiction.

That's right.

There's nothing mysterious about it if you look at the cultural setting.

It's only mysterious if we think we're dealing with isolated mental health issues or isolated physiological issues.

Don't you see the connections?

Nothing mysterious.

Yeah, so depression and anxiety are fast growing and they're major challenges.

more and more kids are being diagnosed with ADHD

More and more kids are being diagnosed with something called oppositional defiant disorder, which... What is that?

Oppositional... That's when a kid is defiant and oppositional and goes against adult values and adult expectations.

But we think there's something wrong with the kid instead of looking at the context of what makes the kid defiant.

The environment.

No.

Are these diseases?

Well...

You can talk about them as diseases to some degree and certainly, you know, I've had depression and I've taken medication for it in my 40s and it really made a difference for me.