I'm Mayan Bealeck and welcome to my breakdown.

There's a lot of misinformation and myths out there about mental health, and the goal

is for me to break things down so that you don't have to.

I studied neuroscience for 12 years.

I have experienced most of the mental health challenges that we will be discussing.

The gentleman to my right is my second favorite Cohen from Canada.

That's right, he's not Leonard Cohen.

He's Jonathan Cohen, hello Jonathan Cohen.

Hi, Mayan.

There's a tremendous amount of stigma surrounding mental health, and the point of joining

me for my breakdown is to learn together how to heal and how to start understanding how

all of these things are our mind and our body and our mental health.

I'm choosing to be vulnerable here.

I'm going to do it, just going to do it.

If I don't have an experience, if I don't have a story about what we're talking about,

I'm going to find someone who does and we're going to talk about what works for that person.

We don't drink in my religion, baptist or complete tea totals, but I had a friend that

was an Episcopalian.

Oh yeah, those Episcopalians.

The Episcopalians.

And so you figure out, well, it's a little easier being gay, you know, when I'm loaded,

and thus began this self-medicating.

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