Dr. Paul Conti

It was the mental health changes.

You could see in retrospect, he didn't feel as safe in the world.

He didn't feel

that he was strong anymore.

He felt a sense of weakness and a sense of vulnerability, and he was then compensating in unhealthy ways.

And it was so clear to me, my God, we didn't look at what was most important here, right?

And I could see that because of the changes in me.

I became much less healthy afterwards.

And it was by realizing this can't be going anywhere good in me.

I don't want to repeat this where I'm having mental health problems.

I need to do something about it.

I need to

You say, put my hand up and say that I need help.

And it really just made it so clear to me how our society doesn't look at mental health and doesn't address, Hey, let's help this person build good mental health, no matter who the person is, let alone if they've had some real injury to their mental health.

Right.

And the fact that we don't do that has awful consequences.

And I saw right in front of me sometimes that the consequence of that is death.

The DSM is a book of over 1,100 pages that's just filled and filled with diagnoses and modifiers of diagnoses.

There's an infinite amount of numbers in those 1,100 pages, which guarantees that if we're following through that book, that we will not understand people.

So it was born of an effort to understand people.