This month, mental health is for everyone
Learning more about mental health, and how focusing on our own, can help everyone.
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We all have something. To what degree and to what it is, it's all different. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Mental health looks different for different people. Can you all maybe explain how we can understand this better
moving forward? I think mental health definitely looks different for everyone, for one, because a lot of people don't have the language to understand what mental health is,
and especially if you're coming from backgrounds where you're not speaking about the challenges that you may be dealing with, whether that be anxiety
or depression, or, you know, in the Black community, we may say, oh, it's a demon, or it's something that you need to pray about
and all of those particular things. All of these things, that cultural aspect can play a large role into the way we view and address
mental health challenges. You couldn't have said it better. And, Dr. Rodney, what are your thoughts? A key piece to consider is that we
go through the same experiences, and we might come out being affected differently. And part of that is how we've been conditioned
to accept as what is mental health, first, by definition, and what is acceptable to voice. And so while our internal experiences might be difficult
and could be classified easily as mental health or mental illness, what is acceptable also drives how it's presented and when it's presented
for different individuals. I think that every single person in this world can benefit from some sort of mental health treatment or just
psychotherapy. And the reason I think that is because we are all humans that were raised in different backgrounds
with different values, and we're all trying to just coexist. So, yeah, mental health is just something
that I think every single person can really benefit from learning more about, learning more about themselves, and how
mental health behavior
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