All right, good afternoon, everyone.

It's Dr. Niagara again, our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Another great week of talking with so many of you guys from around the world.

Very appreciative for all the comments and feedback.

If I haven't gotten back to, I will give you my contact information at the end of this episode.

So today with us, I am very happy and privileged to have a guest speaker,

Dr. Mark Rego, a psychiatrist who is a professor at Yale, who wrote what I think is an

incredible book and incredibly relevant topic that the title of this book is called

frontal fatigue, the impact of modern life

and technology on mental illness. And if you guys have been following the program, you knew I did one of

the episodes I titled anti-social media. But I think his book is outstanding because all of us

can relate to this. And you don't have to be a medical professional

you don't have to be a neuropsychologist a psychiatrist a prescriber clinician to

really grasp i think what dr rego and his points are trying to make in this so without any

hesitation dr rego welcome to psychology unplugged thanks very much very happy to be here So can you briefly describe what your, what was your intention of writing frontal fatigue?

Well, it actually started out as an academic paper about a meeting.

And I had been interested for a long time in the relationship between modern life and psychiatric illness.

There was already the data had started to, I mean, but not for a while actually, but it was coming out on a more frequent basis about increased prevalence,

usually depression, but other mental disorders, or earlier onsets of severe mental illness.

I know you had referenced in your book a lot about earlier diagnosis of ADHD,

bipolarity, schizophrenia. Yeah. Yeah. Things like ADHD, you know, very much more in the news.

So I was very interested in this whole area. I became interested in philosophy as a kind of a way to tackle it in addition to psychiatric

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