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I'm Kavita Patel.

And I'm Maya Feller.

Mental health is a topic, Kavita, that we've both wanted to tackle in multiple ways as we started making this show, wouldn't you say?

Absolutely. I think we had to try to resist the temptation to have the entire set of podcast be about mental health and that's

for good reason it's just something that deserves more conversation has so much of an

impact on all aspects of our life and health and wellness. And we recently had a powerful conversation

with New York State Health Commissioner

Ashwin Vassan on the detrimental impact

social media has on teen mental health.

And before that, we talked about the rise of eating disorder

diagnoses amongst boys and men with Dr. Jason Nagata. Yeah both of those were

really powerful conversations and this week we're going to continue the conversation

about men's mental health at large. So you know to be clear people of all genders can

experience mental illness and we can all be impacted by feelings and emotions that have a real impact

and effect on our mental health. We also know through data that there are gender-based differences

in anxiety and depression. Women are twice as likely to develop

depression, however, men die by suicide more often and it seems that depression may be under-diagnosed in men.

Be a man, man up, these are all sayings

that so many of us have heard.

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