Hey, Dr. Keith Ablo, of course, you've seen him on television a million times, one of the country's leading psychiatrists for decades.

He's written 16 bestsellers. Hey, he's written a great column. You can get it at townhall.com or go to Keith Ablo on Twitter.

And we want to talk about this. And it's great to have him with us. Dr. Keith Ablo, how are you doing?

I'm doing okay, Mark.

How about you?

Very good.

Hey, before we get to this, let me just ask you in general, the lockdown, the masks,

this thing has been going on for two years.

I notice people are, they don't even know it.

They're suffering a little depression, anxiety without realizing it.

How bad is it now?

What have you seen in your patients? I think it's incredibly bad. People feel listless.

They don't have the same motivation they did. You know, people are creatures of habit. If you change

their routines enough, you can get them to find it very difficult to get back on the wheel to get back moving again.

And people have to re-up. So it was a tremendously bad idea to stop down everything because people do too.

And they also feel helpless, by the way, because if you have big government saying,

you know what, you don't really matter, your opinions don't matter, you'll follow what we say to do,

you know, people sometimes listen to you and they say, I have no power.

I don't know how to get it back.

Well, you can and you need to because that's what's going to power this economy for everybody,

but for your family too and for you.

Yeah.

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