Dr. Paul Conti

We have no one who's in that category, right?

Why wouldn't it be?

We look at our physical health saying, hey, we have our issues, right?

Someone sprains an ankle or someone might have a chronic illness or we have a little bit of a high blood pressure.

We're trying to keep ourselves, our cholesterol in an ideal range.

We all have physical health issues like this part of life.

Why would we expect it to be any different?

So when it comes to mental health, we don't define it in a way that says what we're looking for is we want good, healthy, robust mental health, right?

Just like we want good, healthy, robust physical health.

We didn't say it's either perfect.

Is your physical health perfect?

Oh, wait, it isn't?

Well, you're broken.

What's wrong with you?

And then we just give you a bunch of numbers and then you feel bad.

But that's what we're doing with mental health.

And if we say, no, this is the most important aspect of our lives because everything, including our physical health and how we take care of ourselves, comes through the lens defined by our mental health.

So let's understand ourselves and build good mental health for our futures.

I would argue that, yes, it's a frame shift or paradigm shift I'm arguing for, but I would also argue it's just common sense that what we're doing doesn't work, right?

It is not working.