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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | So May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month. |
0:03.2 | And it's so important that we have a conversation on mental illness |
0:05.8 | because honestly so many of you guys are struggling with it. |
0:08.6 | And to be honest, I have two in the past. |
0:10.8 | And so I'm so excited to talk about this, but I just want to give you some statistics just so you know as you're |
0:15.8 | listening if you're struggling you are not alone these are sad statistics but at the same time |
0:21.6 | I think it's good to just be aware that in any given |
0:24.4 | year, one in five Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness. |
0:29.2 | So 44 million people on any year can be diagnosed with the mental illness. |
0:33.3 | There's more than 200 classified forms of mental illness, |
0:37.2 | which I thought was really fascinating because I, |
0:40.0 | you know, off the top of my head, only think of a couple, |
0:42.3 | but there's so many |
0:43.0 | different ways that people are struggling. Anxiety disorder is the most common with |
0:48.9 | 42 million people struggling with |
0:55.0 | with major depression and 4.8 million youth struggling with depression |
1:00.0 | obviously suicidal thoughts and even actions are so high right now as well and so that's why we're |
1:07.6 | having this conversation. I just want to say first and foremost too, if you are someone who is struggling with suicidal thoughts, please get the help you. and |
1:15.0 | first inform us to if you are someone who is struggling with suicidal thoughts, |
1:14.0 | please get the help you need. |
1:15.0 | If you need a number to call, you can call 988, |
1:19.0 | and that actually is available 24-7 for free support to help you get through these hard and dark times. |
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