The mental health crisis is a way of individualizing social problems. You’re not anxious, you’re living exactly appropriately given the conditions of what you’re going through in your life or in your family’s life. That’s very different. So the mental health crisis is really On the one hand, very useful because it makes a lot of people pay attention to something that wasn’t looked at before.

But on the other end, it’s a deviation. It’s a deflection. That’s the word. It’s a deflection. Um, if people are depressed, if people feel despair, if people feel anxious, you know, you need to be able to sit with them as parents and as teachers and as therapists about how to deal with that. The job market about the loneliness that they are feeling in the midst of many other people about the effects of social media on their sense of self about climate crisis about the war about.

It’s like this. It’s that you actually name it rather than looking at the symptoms. You know, the symptom is just a response to something and that something is more societal and more collective. We don’t want to help our children to become more resilient. Resilience is not a bunch of traits in an individual.

Resilience is the ability to tap into the collective resources. And so in light of the big issues that are happening, we are dealing with a collective resilience. And if everybody goes at it alone, then we will be overwhelmed and depressed and school avoidance and phobic and OCD and and and and. But if we create I think together where we understand what we are, how we maintain hope and joy and love in the direst of circumstances, then we will not have a mental health crisis.

We will have a world in crisis with people that are coping the mental health.