Wait, is there such a thing as mental health or not?

A heck of a question to ask, I realize, on this mental health podcast.

But stay with me.

There is this school of thought that says that by focusing on mental health and physical health

as separate things, we risk ignoring the connection that they have with each other,

how each informs the other. Like if you have chronic pain from a physical ailment, that pain is going

to have an effect on your mental state. Could put you into a depression. And if that's the case,

you don't really have two healths physical and mental.. You have one health, and your health has a problem.

Similarly, a whole bunch of different mental health conditions can lead to, say, a lack of sleep,

which can be felt physically all over the body. So is that a mental health problem or physical

health problem? Well, it's just a health problem.

So the thinking goes that there is only health. Physical and mental are part of health,

are part of each other. After all, if a brain is separated from a body, the individual who owns

the brain and the body does not tend to thrive.

Okay, this is not the kind of introduction you would ordinarily provide for an interview with a comedian,

but this is not an ordinary show.

It's DePresh Mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

So Cher's a Meade. Sashir Zameda is an actor and stand-up comedian.

She may be best known for her several seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Sashir has been a regular on the show's Woke and Home Economics, and she's appeared in several films.

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