Dr. Paul Conti

And it's about the generations that come.

It's about children.

And if we don't have children, it's about young people, right?

It's about doing the right thing for ourselves and for those who come after us.

Oh, dystemia.

It's a huge difference.

No, I think this is talking about something very important.

Think about what you said, and I'm not trying to diagnose you during the time together, but it's interesting to say dysthymia, which just means chronically low mood, right?

And I think given what you're describing, you're going to have a chronically low mood, right?

It's like me coming in and saying my knee hurts.

And then if you say back, oh, you have hurt knee.

Okay, you told me something true, but it doesn't help me understand and it doesn't help me change anything, right?

Right.

So the idea of why would a person have dysthymia?

The whole concept there is there are people whose neurobiology, whose brain chemistry mean that even if everything is going really well in their life, there aren't traumas weighing on them.

There aren't worries and anxieties intruding onto them.

They'll still have a low mood.

It's meant to capture something neurobiological that is not what's going on here.

There aren't a lot of people who have life where it's running along very well, but their mood is chronically low no matter what.

That's interesting, and it's a brain biology, a brain chemistry issue, and we should look at that.