Why Youth Mental Health & Suicide Matters to Everyone – Dr. Mark Goulston : 1003
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™ … you’ll find out that kids are killing themselves more often and at younger ages. Suicide prevention expert Dr. Mark Goulston joins the show to discuss the very real and very urgent topics of youth mental health and suicide—from pre-teens to teens to young adults. These issues concern everyone, not only families, educators or professionals who connect with young people. Here’s why:
Suicide shows up in the top three causes of death in young people between the ages of 10-24, according to 2020 stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WISQARS Leading Causes of Death Reports.
Young people are hurting. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that nearly 20% of high school students say they’ve had serious thoughts of suicide and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives. Dr. Mark explains that many young people struggling mentally and emotionally feel like they're a burden to everyone. And they don’t have confidence that parents can help them feel better.
You’ll learn a lot during this conversation, such as:
- factors driving teen mental health issues and teen suicide.
- what’s going on in the teen brain from a developmental perspective that leads them to think that death is a preferable alternative to working through life situations.
- signs or red flags that a teen is struggling.
- how parents and adults often can diminish or dismiss teens’ emotions, situations with friends or love relationships.
- what emotional intelligence skills are most useful for parents/adults to better understand teens.
- how to talk to teens—whether you’re a parent or a caring adult in a teen’s life.
- how to improve listening in a culture dominated by tech.
- how to listen to teens and help them realize and understand their emotions—without cutting them off, interrupting them, or jumping to advice and solutions.
- when to seek professional intervention.
More about Dr. Mark Goulston: He's a retired psychiatrist, former UCLA professor of psychiatry and former FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer. He recently received the “Shine the Light Media Award” from the Los Angeles County Medical Association for bringing attention to teen mental health and suicide. He’s the author or co-author of nine books: “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone,” ranks in the 15 Best Communication Skills Books of All Time.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, as usual, we have our live audience from the upgrade collective. |
| 0:19.0 | Go to DaveAsprey.com. |
| 0:21.0 | If you'd like to be part of the live audience and ask me questions and help me ask questions of our guests. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's guest is going to talk about something that's not very comfortable, |
| 0:33.0 | but something that is more real than some of the things you may have heard about in the news over the last couple of years. |
| 0:39.0 | And that is a major, major epidemic of teen mental health problems and even suicide. |
| 0:48.0 | So we're going to go deep with an expert today. |
| 0:50.0 | It has lived a very long and learned life about what's driving this. |
| 0:56.0 | And as a father of teenagers myself, this is something that I don't want affecting my kids. |
| 1:01.0 | I don't want affecting their friends. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't want to infect anyone on the planet because I was a pretty miserable teenager to be true. |
| 1:06.0 | So if you're a parent or just an adult who cares about teenagers, |
| 1:10.0 | this episode is for you. |
| 1:11.0 | We're not going to pull any punches. |
| 1:13.0 | We're going to call it like it is and tell you what to do about it. |
| 1:17.0 | The bottom line is you are going to learn how to listen to teenagers and help them realize their emotions |
| 1:25.0 | in a way that was probably way more useful and direct than you learned because probably no one ever taught you that. |
| 1:33.0 | So we're just going to teach you how to help the kids understand without telling them what to do without giving them advice. |
| 1:40.0 | Because as you might already know, teenagers don't want to buy from their parents, |
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