There is more to mental health sometimes than going to a psychiatrist, getting a professional

diagnosis, maybe one that involves acronyms, comes with medical plan to treat, pills to take.

Granted, those things are important and should be looked into it. Please do get to a doctor

if you're in any way concerned. Find out if you have a diagnosis

with an acronym and a prescription. But yeah, a mental health issue could be something other

than that. It could be a lot of things. It could be something that just makes your life

harder. A psychological phenomenon, a thing that messes you up a little bit,

that you could address and maybe take care of. That's good to recognize too,

so you can know what you're dealing with and make a plan. Like, churn. I don't mean in the

butter sense. I'll explain. It's depression mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Claude Steele, pretty accomplished guy. He's a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University,

endowed Dean Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education,

professor in the social sciences emeritus, former executive vice chancellor and provost at Berkeley,

former provost of Columbia University.

Claude Steele is known for his work in the area of stereotype threat. That's where people feel themselves at risk of conforming to a stereotype of their social group.

He wrote about stereotype threat in the acclaimed 2010 book,

Whistling Vivaldi, which used the idea of stereotype threat to explain minority underperformance

in higher education. Claude Steele's new book is Churn, the tension that divides us and how to

overcome it. This book also addresses

stereotypes of all kinds, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, talks about the anxiety

and distress of being judged as the summation of the stereotypes of your group, how that might

lead to other mental health issues you're

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