Dr. Paul Conti

I haven't had eight different bad relationships.

I've had the same relationship eight times over.

Your mind doesn't want you to be unhappy.

It's your mind, it's your friend, but it's easy for it to get confused.

There's this thing that you can do even of stopping and saying.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't think it has to be more difficult to do it with mental health than it is for physical health because we have a way of understanding our physical health.

Like we all know that we have a heart and lungs and muscles and joints and, you know, we understand that there are these components of physical health and we can look at them and

And we can either look to see where a problem is, if something isn't going the way we want it to, or how we can build strong physical health.

And I think we can do the same for mental health.

It doesn't have to be so confusing or ethereal.

I think that we can understand that we all have a brain and the brain has a mind and the mind has similarities across human beings, just as our bodies do.

So by understanding that there's a structure of self that each of us has, and there's a function of self that each of us has,

We can do the same thing, an analogy, to what we do for physical health, for mental health, and it doesn't have to be less accessible to us than understanding our physical health and building good physical health is.

Yeah.

Really, the differentiation we make is unconscious versus conscious.

Subconscious gets used sometimes, but it's basically under the water, the part of the iceberg that's under the water, which is unconscious, and the part that's above the water, which is the conscious mind.

And so, so much more is underwater.