Rainn Wilson
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I can, I can afford to see a psychologist and I, you know, I have a shrink and, you know, I go and, and use talk therapy has been incredibly helpful for my, for my mental health and, you know, the issues that I've had with depression and anxiety and addiction and stuff like that.
And this mental health epidemic that has really sprung up over the last 10 or 20 years is it's a killer.
It's a deadly silent killer.
So if you're talking about like saving human life, you've got to talk about
You've got to talk about people who make the choice to end their lives, usually because of untreated mental distress or they need medication.
And only now, really only the last 10 years have people started to see that, oh, mental health is, it's all health.
And it's brain chemistry, it's brain wiring.
It can be hormonal.
So taking into account the whole picture, there's- So I would add to your-
diagnosis of the problems of healthcare is to like fully and completely incorporate mental health into the healthcare kind of biosphere.
So it's not something that's seen as like the- Like the dental.
Yeah, exactly.
And by the way, this is my favorite thing to do is like someone be like, oh, this is Dr. Beaumont.
Oh, what's your doctor's like?
I'm a dentist.
It's like, then I always, I love this.
I love doing is like, you're not a real doctor.
Oh, it gets them so good.
But I love, you know, they're rich.
They're dentists.