Seth Kahan

Yeah, so what I've seen is research shows that for children, education works. You can teach a child about brain diseases, mental health, substance use disorders. For adults in general, they need to meet somebody that's like them. So like if I saw an ad, let's say an Olympic swimmer who's got mental health challenges and has overcome those, that's a nice thing, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer.

Yeah, so what I've seen is research shows that for children, education works. You can teach a child about brain diseases, mental health, substance use disorders. For adults in general, they need to meet somebody that's like them. So like if I saw an ad, let's say an Olympic swimmer who's got mental health challenges and has overcome those, that's a nice thing, but I'm not an Olympic swimmer.

But if I saw an ad for a 65-year-old white guy who worked as a consultant and he was dealing with alcohol use disorder or schizophrenia or bipolar, I'd watch that closely and I would be thinking, that could be me. That could be my friend. And all of a sudden, I'm having a different kind of experience. And we find that that decreases stigma with adults.

But if I saw an ad for a 65-year-old white guy who worked as a consultant and he was dealing with alcohol use disorder or schizophrenia or bipolar, I'd watch that closely and I would be thinking, that could be me. That could be my friend. And all of a sudden, I'm having a different kind of experience. And we find that that decreases stigma with adults.

But if I saw an ad for a 65-year-old white guy who worked as a consultant and he was dealing with alcohol use disorder or schizophrenia or bipolar, I'd watch that closely and I would be thinking, that could be me. That could be my friend. And all of a sudden, I'm having a different kind of experience. And we find that that decreases stigma with adults.

If they can meet someone and have a positive experience, then that starts to change the way they think about things. There's one thing I just wanted to throw in here.

If they can meet someone and have a positive experience, then that starts to change the way they think about things. There's one thing I just wanted to throw in here.

If they can meet someone and have a positive experience, then that starts to change the way they think about things. There's one thing I just wanted to throw in here.

You mentioned, you know, if someone has a psychotic episode, there's an organization that I've just become aware of in the United States called The Right Response, where you can go and get a directory of who to call that's not a police officer if you know of somebody who's having a psychotic episode. And you can find it on the web at therightresponse.co. Just go there and there's a directory.

You mentioned, you know, if someone has a psychotic episode, there's an organization that I've just become aware of in the United States called The Right Response, where you can go and get a directory of who to call that's not a police officer if you know of somebody who's having a psychotic episode. And you can find it on the web at therightresponse.co. Just go there and there's a directory.

You mentioned, you know, if someone has a psychotic episode, there's an organization that I've just become aware of in the United States called The Right Response, where you can go and get a directory of who to call that's not a police officer if you know of somebody who's having a psychotic episode. And you can find it on the web at therightresponse.co. Just go there and there's a directory.

You can look up your area. I think it's a great service that they're providing. It's free. It'll route you to someone you can call.

You can look up your area. I think it's a great service that they're providing. It's free. It'll route you to someone you can call.

You can look up your area. I think it's a great service that they're providing. It's free. It'll route you to someone you can call.

It's easy for me to understand because, I mean, having grown up with my mom, I mean, she would have meltdowns regularly. And if you haven't been trained and you don't know what's going on, it's scared the hell out of you. If your job is to protect people, then you fall back on what you know how to do. I had a close friend who worked at St.

It's easy for me to understand because, I mean, having grown up with my mom, I mean, she would have meltdowns regularly. And if you haven't been trained and you don't know what's going on, it's scared the hell out of you. If your job is to protect people, then you fall back on what you know how to do. I had a close friend who worked at St.

It's easy for me to understand because, I mean, having grown up with my mom, I mean, she would have meltdowns regularly. And if you haven't been trained and you don't know what's going on, it's scared the hell out of you. If your job is to protect people, then you fall back on what you know how to do. I had a close friend who worked at St.

Elizabeth's, which is a hospital here in Washington, D.C., that takes care of the seriously mentally ill. And he was assigned to the people who are known to be violent. He said, you know, when we have someone acting out inside the hospital, we got these two big guys and we got these huge pillows.

Elizabeth's, which is a hospital here in Washington, D.C., that takes care of the seriously mentally ill. And he was assigned to the people who are known to be violent. He said, you know, when we have someone acting out inside the hospital, we got these two big guys and we got these huge pillows.

Elizabeth's, which is a hospital here in Washington, D.C., that takes care of the seriously mentally ill. And he was assigned to the people who are known to be violent. He said, you know, when we have someone acting out inside the hospital, we got these two big guys and we got these huge pillows.