I've been going mental, I'm losing my mind,

cause you're on it all of the time.

I've been going mental, but I'm feeling just fine.

Going mental all of the time on today's episode i'm joined by dr egore gallinker he is a professor of

psychiatry at mount sinai he is also the founder and director of the zirinsky Family Center for Bipolar, which is a clinical

and research center treating those suffering from bipolar disorder.

He is also the director of the suicide research and prevention lab at Mount Sinai, where

ongoing research includes development and validation scales to determine imminent suicide

risk.

He is written an acclaimed book called Talking to Families about mental illness on how to

involve family in psychiatric treatment.

He was born in Moscow and originally was a chemist.

And then when he came to the United States and immigrated, he decided to get his PhD as well as his medical

degree, started at Mount Sinai, and kind of fell into psychiatry, which you'll hear more about

today. When I was listening back and working on this episode, I did feel emotional just because

it is such a sensitive topic and also deeply personal.

And I feel like suicide is on the rise and just to better understand it.

So I'm really happy to have him here today and I hope you enjoy.

Welcome to the show.

It's nice to meet you and thank you for coming. Let's just start off. Could you introduce yourself from my listeners, please? Sure. My name is

Igor Gallenker and I'm a professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai and the director of the Suicide

Research Prevention Lab and also the Family Center for Bipolis

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