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Seth Kahan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
231 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

That's why you've got to get into the policy, because all those people who are not going to think about it, but they'll do the right thing if it's written into their policy, you want them. And they'll do the wrong thing if that's written into their policy, too, and you don't want that.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

How are people interacting with each other? Anywhere people interact. In their home? In a shopping mall? In a church? Anywhere. What are the rules for talking about mental health challenges? That's easy to see because you can see it in people's behavior and you can document it and you can give people report cards and they can adjust their behavior. But then the third dimension is not easy to see.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

How are people interacting with each other? Anywhere people interact. In their home? In a shopping mall? In a church? Anywhere. What are the rules for talking about mental health challenges? That's easy to see because you can see it in people's behavior and you can document it and you can give people report cards and they can adjust their behavior. But then the third dimension is not easy to see.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

How are people interacting with each other? Anywhere people interact. In their home? In a shopping mall? In a church? Anywhere. What are the rules for talking about mental health challenges? That's easy to see because you can see it in people's behavior and you can document it and you can give people report cards and they can adjust their behavior. But then the third dimension is not easy to see.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

And that's what happens in the privacy of your own mind and how you think about it. And that has to be dealt with. So I'll give you a personal story for that. When my mother was near the end of her life, she was on meds for her schizophrenia and she was doing very well. However, I still felt embarrassed by her because that is something that I had in my mind since I was 10 years old.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

And that's what happens in the privacy of your own mind and how you think about it. And that has to be dealt with. So I'll give you a personal story for that. When my mother was near the end of her life, she was on meds for her schizophrenia and she was doing very well. However, I still felt embarrassed by her because that is something that I had in my mind since I was 10 years old.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

And that's what happens in the privacy of your own mind and how you think about it. And that has to be dealt with. So I'll give you a personal story for that. When my mother was near the end of her life, she was on meds for her schizophrenia and she was doing very well. However, I still felt embarrassed by her because that is something that I had in my mind since I was 10 years old.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Now we're talking about me being 45 years old. I still have it. I remember a dinner in my house with my father-in-law and his partner and my mother and my wife. My mother was holding her own in the conversation, she was very smart, but her hair was a little funky and she'd spill stuff on her blouse and she wouldn't clean it up. I was humiliated by her.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Now we're talking about me being 45 years old. I still have it. I remember a dinner in my house with my father-in-law and his partner and my mother and my wife. My mother was holding her own in the conversation, she was very smart, but her hair was a little funky and she'd spill stuff on her blouse and she wouldn't clean it up. I was humiliated by her.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Now we're talking about me being 45 years old. I still have it. I remember a dinner in my house with my father-in-law and his partner and my mother and my wife. My mother was holding her own in the conversation, she was very smart, but her hair was a little funky and she'd spill stuff on her blouse and she wouldn't clean it up. I was humiliated by her.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

That was all happening in the privacy of my own mind. My father-in-law and the woman who was his partner loved my mother. They even told me afterwards. They just enjoyed the conversation so much they loved to meet my mom. And my wife didn't have any issues with her. Only me in private was having an issue.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

That was all happening in the privacy of my own mind. My father-in-law and the woman who was his partner loved my mother. They even told me afterwards. They just enjoyed the conversation so much they loved to meet my mom. And my wife didn't have any issues with her. Only me in private was having an issue.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

That was all happening in the privacy of my own mind. My father-in-law and the woman who was his partner loved my mother. They even told me afterwards. They just enjoyed the conversation so much they loved to meet my mom. And my wife didn't have any issues with her. Only me in private was having an issue.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

And so I actually took that into my own therapy because I felt like those thoughts about my mother were actually preventing me from loving her as much as I wanted to. That's an example of you have to go inside and ask yourself, how am I thinking about someone who has a mental health challenge?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

And so I actually took that into my own therapy because I felt like those thoughts about my mother were actually preventing me from loving her as much as I wanted to. That's an example of you have to go inside and ask yourself, how am I thinking about someone who has a mental health challenge?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

And so I actually took that into my own therapy because I felt like those thoughts about my mother were actually preventing me from loving her as much as I wanted to. That's an example of you have to go inside and ask yourself, how am I thinking about someone who has a mental health challenge?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Yeah, I did with the help of my therapist who really helped me to examine my thoughts and think about things in different ways and address some of the embarrassment that I felt directly, you know?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Yeah, I did with the help of my therapist who really helped me to examine my thoughts and think about things in different ways and address some of the embarrassment that I felt directly, you know?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Yeah, I did with the help of my therapist who really helped me to examine my thoughts and think about things in different ways and address some of the embarrassment that I felt directly, you know?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Seth Kahan's Journey Transforms Mental Health Advocacy in America

Well, I had a lot of success with cognitive behavior therapy, CBT. And one of the things that that does is it asks you to examine your thinking and identify mistakes that you're making in your own thinking, like overgeneralization or black and white thinking. My mother's either healthy or she's not healthy. She's either good or she's bad.