You're listening to Well Now,

you're listening to Well Now,

Slates podcast on Health and Wellness.

I'm Kavita Patel.

And I'm Maya Feller.

So a real vital component of wellness is really taking care of our mental health.

Kavita, you and I have talked so much about what wellness is and what it isn't. And I think that every time we have this conversation a new piece

comes to mind for me. When we hear people talking about mental health and

mental wellness I know for me for sure

that I know it's more than just drinking water or going for a walk or forest bathing

all good things but it's so much more than that.

It is Maya, and I think it's also so much more than just even talking about mental health or

stigma with it.

We know that at least one in six people probably have some sort of mental health

diagnosis often undiagnosed or under-diagnosed. One in eight in the, according to the World Health Organization, live with a

diagnosed mental disorder.

So we're not talking about something that's rare or unusual.

It's everywhere.

And when you think about how many people

do we just have in our household, Maya,

just under our roofs,

there's a chance that one of us has something.

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