Dr. Paul Conti

And if you know there's another conception of you that doesn't involve, oh, what's wrong with me?

Why am I not enough?

There's another conception that looks at perseverance and resilience and lets you own the things that you maybe don't feel great about in your life and still feel good enough, right?

right that this is the difference that allows for health but i think that it is really quite amazing that you would have to come to that on your own right and you're a person who you know who has a lot of agency in him just from what i know of you that you're able your brain a light bulb goes off this isn't getting me anywhere and i have to understand myself just like in me

After the loss of my brother, when I was having unhealthy relationships, unhealthy friendships, drinking more than I should, becoming less healthy, there was something that said, hey, you need help.

And I called the number on the back of the insurance card for mental health help, even though I was embarrassed about it because of the environment I'd grown up in.

We were able to do those things, but people shouldn't have to find their way to that, right?

The system should say, here's how we're going to come at whatever is going on with you.

We want to help you understand yourself.

Right now, let's talk about practical change.

The system has to bring that to people.

Otherwise, we're not going to most of us won't find our way to it.

Right.

And maybe we find our way to it just from some element of good fortune.

Or I was fortunate to have an insurance card that had that number I was afraid to call.

But at least I had the card and I called it.

What if I didn't?

Or what if you didn't have that light bulb go off?

We are losing people to so much loss of good life that could be in life, loss of people having better lives and at times actual loss of life because the system isn't framing things the way that you just said.

Let's help you understand yourself and bring change.