I hear a lot about mental health these days.

I don't know what these days are, I don't know when these days are,

but these days, any day that you're listening on watching this,

mental health comes up a lot right now and it's like you hear about actors and

musicians and athletes taking mental health breaks and you got to put yourself first and I don't disagree

with any of that but I in preparing for this podcast something that struck me was that it's separated at all.

Because I know there's some young people in here who don't pay for health insurance or

or what maybe you don't have health insurance for whatever reason but

one of the things that struck me when I started paying for my own health insurance when I turned

I was it 26 that it's separate, like mental health services aren't included in your health

insurance necessarily. And I think it's funny how it's separated even in its own term mental health

because in my experience how I'm feeling mentally directly coincides with how I'm feeling

physically. I've never really felt great physically. Well that that's a whole other topic but I've when I'm

feeling good for me physically it's always when I'm feeling happy mentally.

I've never felt, oh, you know, I'm really looking good

or feeling better and physically,

but in my head, I'm sad.

It never, it really correlates at least for me. I don't know if it's the same for you. But I don't, it's really sad to me. One of the more responses I got for episodes of the church and if you

didn't know I was a co-host of a of a podcast called The Church of

What's happening now and I believe it was episode 500 and 501.

Was an episode two episodes that Joey did with me and we had Ari Shafir

Colin because I opened up about my mental health struggles.

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