It’s Not a Mental Health Crisis: Human Reactions to a Loneliness Epidemic with Dr. Jody Carrington
Self-Helpless
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And we're talking about things like trauma and connection and, you know, that preps us for adulthood. |
| 0:05.3 | Because people say to me on the time, like, does when you do good therapy, does it always have to come back to your childhood? |
| 0:10.4 | You know, when we have to deal with ourselves and do our work, does it always come back to your childhood? |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm like, yes, yes, no other opportunities to discuss anything else. You can drink all the kale and do all the |
| 0:23.9 | yoga shit you want. It comes back to your understanding of how you treat people and people |
| 0:29.0 | treat you full stop. And that usually comes very early. So that experience then just sort of led me |
| 0:35.9 | to this place where now we talk a lot about, I was a psychologist for 20 years, practiced and on a psychiatric inpatient unit with kids and then my own private practice. And for the last 10, I've been speaking and writing books. And I get a lot of questions about a mental health crisis. Like we've never seen, for the first time in history in North America, we are dying |
| 0:54.4 | faster from emotional illness than from physical illness. And we've never had this much access to |
| 0:59.2 | resources or research, but we are killing ourselves faster than we are dying from physical |
| 1:04.8 | ailments. What is happening? So then the response is obviously it's a mental health crisis. We've |
| 1:10.7 | never seen these |
| 1:11.3 | levels of anxiety and depression and everybody got the ADHD and you know, what is happening. |
| 1:15.5 | It's a mental health crisis. I agree that there's something very important happening here, |
| 1:19.9 | but I don't think it's a mental health crisis. I think we're in an understandable human response |
| 1:23.8 | to a loneliness epidemic because the two things you will not automate. So in this human |
| 1:29.7 | race, there are two rules. One, we are neurobiologically wired for connection. No matter how much |
| 1:35.4 | AI we introduce, the only AI that will matter in the healthiest among us is understanding that |
| 1:40.9 | AI means authentic interaction. When you are good at that, when you have people |
| 1:47.2 | in your world that are good at that, you will be better. So this number one rule of the human |
| 1:52.5 | race is we're neurobiologically wired for connection. Whoever made us, I mean, it doesn't matter |
| 1:56.6 | to me if you believe in Jesus or Buddha or the creator or the Great Big Bang theory, |
| 2:00.4 | it doesn't matter. As a human race, first rule, we are neurobiologically wired for connection. You disconnect from an infant, they die. That will not change. Yeah, yeah. The second rule, whoever made us, threw a curb ball. They said, buckle up, bitches, despite the fact that I made you neurobiologically wired for connection, the hardest thing you will ever do is look at each other. |
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