Why We Need a Different Approach to Mental Health & Wellness with Dr. Tom Insel

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Thomas Insel, a highly respected mental health expert, found inspiration in an honest comment from a frustrated family member. He was speaking to a group of mental health advocates about the advances in research and treatment when a man stood up to tell him that their family’s house was on fire, and Insel was only discussing the chemistry of the paint. This striking remark compelled Insel to reevaluate his priorities and look for ways to make a real impact on mental health care. He went on to work at Google, where he believed technology could help scale the proven therapies and treatments he had been researching. In this episode, Eric and Dr. Insel discuss why we need a different approach to mental health and…

How to recognize the essential role personalized mental health care plays in improving well-being.
How to determine the powerful influence of peer support and professional interventions in mental health recovery.
Understanding the benefits of adopting an outcomes-focused mental health policy.
Unraveling the challenges of addiction and the need for effective understanding and treatment approaches.
The urgent need to assess the opportunities of incorporating mental health treatment into other health care programs for holistic care.

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0:27.6	Health is something quite different. It has a lot more to do with where you live, who you live with,
0:32.5	how you live, what you live for.
0:42.4	Welcome to the 1Ufeed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the
0:47.6	thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:54.5	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:58.8	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do,
1:06.4	we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
1:09.8	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent,
1:15.0	and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep
1:20.4	themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:38.6	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Thomas Ensel, an American neuroscientist,
1:44.8	psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and author, who led the National Institute of Mental Health
1:50.6	from 2002 until 2015. Prior to becoming the director of NIMH, he was the founding director of the
1:58.0	Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Tom also co-founded
2:04.1	Humanist Care, Neuro-Well Therapeutics, and Mindsight News, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory
2:10.6	Board for Compass Pathways. Today, Tom and Eric discuss his book Healing, Our Path From Mental
2:16.4	Oneness to Mental Health. Hi, Tom, welcome to the show. Eric, good to be here,
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