Patrick Kennedy

which of course addresses that whole sense of isolation, which is so toxic for people who struggle, who want to keep it a secret, but that this is a leadership initiative by the CEO that

spreads throughout the whole company.

By the way, specifically determines what the EAP, the employee assistance programs look like and what the design of benefits look like.

But it's more than just dotting the I's and crossing the T's.

It's emblematic of the recognition that we're living in a different era now.

And if you want your high valued employees

to stay to be productive to want to work there these are things that are no longer quote soft

but are really hard and can be measured against.

It's not just the build the gym or the yoga or the meditation room.

If that's not coupled with a vision that is saying these are things that are part of our overall

effort to try to meet your needs.

And by the way, if there are additional things that we need to do, we're going to do them as opposed to them kind of be being put out there as well.

I guess we got to check the box on this stuff.

A lot of places of employment have all of this, but it still feels pretty lonely.

And I think that is an intangible

So, as I said, we're digging ourselves out of a hole that we've been digging for decades and generations, frankly, where the perception of these illnesses and the people who suffer from them is so ingrained that we don't even realize our biases.

We're still stuck in a lot of these.

And it's not out of any malice, but it's hard to not react in the way you're programmed to react, to look at people who are sleeping in the streets or look at people who are acting in an annoying and aggravating way because they're in a mental health crisis.

So we all need to get better

literacy that's at all sectors of society.