Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Dyngr again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, our heartfelt thank you to all of our followers, both nationally and internationally.

It's a privilege to be, you know, able to come into your lives and share our collective knowledge of mental health.

And I appreciate all the comments and feedback and suggestions.

It's a great journey.

It's something I look forward to every week.

As I've mentioned, I I become more diligent at preparing and making notes as I've realized how many followers that we have and people using

this platform for a variety of different reasons, whether your practitioners or individuals with a mental health condition,

someone in relationship with someone with a mental health condition, a student. So I try my best

to talk in a way that kind of touches everything, but as you know, I can sometimes be tangential.

But Julie is not with me today, so you guys are stuck with me.

It's a very busy time in mental health,

and psychiatric hospitalizations are up exponentially and the wait lists for

and again this is one of the beauties of being able to talk to people across the globe is the

wait list for getting it to see a therapist a prescriber a neurosigal even is upwards of some in some

places a year to two to three years and there are not enough good mental health

providers and challenges not enough providers to to help and hopefully this this platform this platform is a way to at least give information

and try to demystify this world of mental health,

which is nebulous, but it's measurable and much more visible and tangible, at least from the work that I do,

primarily with diagnostics and the small group of individuals I see for psychotherapy.

So in the very sparse free time that I get, when i'm not perplexed by or one by the anxiety of all

the evals that i have to write but i do get them done um i i was grab the dsm the other day

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