331: Mental Illness: A Global Health Crisis with Mark Lukach
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mark Lukach's wife spent nearly two months in total in psychiatric wards during three different bipolar episodes. Mental illness appeared seemingly out of nowhere with suicidal thoughts, delusions, and dangerous behavior. While this story sounds extreme, I promise that someone you know and care about is suffering right now, as well. That being said, there's a good chance you can help.
On this week's show, we'll look closely at mental illness, which affects one in every four households today. My hope is that this family's story will inspire you to find the courage to deal with the darkness.
Listen & Learn:
- Why suicide is a huge (and growing) problem all over the world
- Medication vs. natural solutions—what's best?
- Why talking and listening will always be important
- How to remove the stigma of mental illness and get help
Links & Resources:
- Mark's Website
- Suicide Statistics (referenced in the show)
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| 0:00.0 | We've been doing a lot of shows recently on mental health and this week we'll talk about an extreme case, bipolar disorder. |
| 0:07.0 | I wanted to share with you before we jump into the show some suicide stats which are pretty shocking and I think most people don't realize |
| 0:15.0 | what's going on. This varies dramatically country by country. I have some pretty |
| 0:19.8 | good stats from the US. If you look at other countries it can be even higher and then of course some |
| 0:24.5 | countries it's a lot lower. Suicide's the 10th leading cause of death in the US. There's |
| 0:29.2 | 44,000 deaths each year almost 45,000 which is very similar to the number that |
| 0:34.7 | happened in car accidents for every successful suicide 25 people attempt. |
| 0:40.7 | More women attempt than men but more men are successful. |
| 0:44.7 | Suicide cost the US $69 billion annually. |
| 0:49.6 | Firearms account for 51% of all suicides. |
| 0:52.8 | That was at least a couple years ago. |
| 0:55.1 | And so in general, we're looking at about |
| 0:56.5 | a hundred and twenty three per day just in the US. |
| 1:00.5 | So the highest rate, basically the highest risk group is middle-aged men and especially white men. |
| 1:07.0 | What do all these stats mean? They mean a bunch of things. |
| 1:11.0 | They mean that your Facebook page has probably been |
| 1:13.3 | lit up with different cases that have happened in the past year. It probably means |
| 1:17.8 | that someone in your immediate family or in-laws is suffering from pretty bad mental illness, |
| 1:24.0 | and it might be depression, it might be anxiety, it might be bipolar disorder, |
| 1:28.0 | it might be something like attention deficit disorder, |
| 1:31.5 | or it might be something else altogether. But mental |
| 1:36.0 | health is a big problem that not enough people are talking about and I think |
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