Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world.

How about we all step out onto the high wire?

Alright, well, you know, we got fourth in July here in America is coming up right around

the corner, a huge celebration we're all going to get to see all those relatives.

Maybe we haven't seen a long time, barbeque beer at the lake or at the ocean on the beach.

I don't know, you know, you're like me, but are you kind of wondering how is that going

to go?

I mean, these are like family members that, you know, we haven't really talked for some

time and maybe we have some real differences of opinion on what kept us all locked down

over the last couple of years.

What are those relationships going to be like?

I mean, we were just talking a couple of weeks ago to Matthias Desmond, an amazing interview

talking about, you know, how everyone around us seems to be, you know, hypnotized in a

way.

It really helped me understand and have some empathy for those around me.

But when we watch the news, when I look at it through that, you know, view, we still have

serious issues in this country and around the world dealing with our own mental health,

which is something that I'm thinking about as I'm looking at going to Fourth of July,

how are we going to deal with all of this?

The peer review journal, The Lancet, says mental health issues were magnified by the pandemic.

The report stipulates that an additional 53 million cases of major depressive disorder

and 76 million cases of anxiety disorders were caused by COVID.

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