Dr. Joseph Lee
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first heard Aug 2022
last heard Aug 2022
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Where I think a big shift, you know, for me, maybe especially coming from psychiatry, which is in a medical model, which is sort of like how you help when things go wrong.
Right.
Versus I think becoming a parent, you want things to go well.
Right.
You're thinking more about well-being and thriving.
And, you know, maybe surprisingly, not so surprisingly, that overlap of learning something from a medical model.
doesn't really cover a lot of what it is to be healthy emotionally, psychologically, mentally healthy.
So I've been talking about all that, learning about it, speaking about that ever since I became a parent.
I kind of talk about all that under a larger banner of what I call mental healthiness.
And that's a lot more along the lines of
You know, again, what does it take for a person to be thriving and healthy as opposed to maybe my sort of professional background, which starts with, you know, how to be not sick and they're not really the same thing.
So somewhere in there, that's definitely the why, you know, becoming a parent and wanting my kids.
Now I got two kids, wanting my kids to thrive, be healthy.
And whatever we as parents, whatever educational experiences, school environments, learning environments that we kind of introduced them to how all those things we think
would be most optimal for them to be thriving kids.
Well, I think even the reason why I think I use that phrase mental healthiness is to distinguish it from a more common phrase, mental health, which for the most part, when people talk about mental health and they use that phrase, they are talking about mental illness or depression.
Some other process of emotional suffering, right?
So mental health as a term is really kind of pretty euphemistic to really talk about something more serious and negative, you know, which is mental suffering, right?
So mental healthiness as a term is really to try and emphasize that we are talking about actual well-being, right?
But along the lines, OK, so what are we seeing in the context of right now at this moment in time with young people, let's say, I will say the good thing is and the optimistic thing and the encouraging thing is, I would say from my generation and younger, there definitely is a pretty societal transformational openness to the idea that our mental well-being is crucial.
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