This is the Getsy Health podcast with Janique and Tristan Roney.

Hey guys, welcome back to the Getsy Health podcast.

Welcome, everybody. We've got an exciting topic.

This is another one of my personal favorites because it gets to something that I used to do when I was a therapist.

So for those of you who don't know Tristan's history, he got his master's in contemplative psychology.

And then he was six months away from getting his PhD, but that's when he was diagnosed with cancer.

So he's had a lot of psychological, clinical work and hours under his belt.

So I'm kind of going to give him the reins on this.

So today I've got to have kind of a serious, crucial conversation, heart to heart with my old profession because I want to talk about

how our health care system is failing people with depression. And mental illness in general.

Mental illness in general. We're focusing more on depression today. We're going to primarily focus on

depression because that's such a common thing. In fact, one out of ten people basically is struggling with depression.

And I have a feeling that that's going to get even worse as this upcoming generation starts to get older, unfortunately.

Well, and for those of you that are like, well, I'm that nine out of ten, do you have anxiety?

Because this depression and anxiety are kind of like

two sides of the same coin. And so a lot of the same issues, just your body is interpreting

this disorder either as depression or anxiety. So the tools that we're going to give on this podcast will help everyone with managing

their anxiety and depression.

Exactly.

And so let's talk about how the system is kind of failing people right now.

And when I say failing people, I'm not necessarily talking to you specifically because you could be one of those people who you were struggling with depression.

You got put on a medication. It solved all of your issues and you've never had anything come up since then.

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