Latest / Let's Ask the Mamas! / Mental Health Awareness Month
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, how
- 0:02Speaker 1: are you celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month? Well, let's ask
- 0:05Speaker 1: our American mamas. Mamma, she said, and joining us now
- 0:20Speaker 1: are American mamas Terry Neediville and Kimberly Burlison. You know,
- 0:23Speaker 1: it was a first lady Betty Ford, who was really
- 0:28Speaker 1: the first person, I think in American history who somewhat
- 0:31Speaker 1: normalized mental health to where it wasn't just you know,
- 0:34Speaker 1: these are lepers that need to be isolated off to
- 0:36Speaker 1: the distance. And she was an alcoholic and she said, look,
- 0:39Speaker 1: I've had to gone through alcoholic you know, anonymous and
- 0:43Speaker 1: going through rehab and all this other stuff, and mental
- 0:45Speaker 1: hellness is a mental health is a real thing, and
- 0:48Speaker 1: that wasn't back in the nineteen seventies. And so I
- 0:51Speaker 1: would say that what Betty Ford did for America and
- 0:55Speaker 1: the discussion about mental health absolutely a good thing for
- 0:58Speaker 1: the country. But now doesn't it seem like practically everyone
- 1:03Speaker 1: has a mental health issue.
- 1:05Speaker 2: It does feel like that. I know that may is
- 1:07Speaker 2: mental health awareness situation, but I feel like what we
- 1:11Speaker 2: are seeing right now is like over diagnosing this and
- 1:14Speaker 2: people are using their mental awareness or health as a badge.
- 1:19Speaker 2: You know, that's becoming like who they are and not
- 1:22Speaker 2: just a situation. I think most people we have situational depression.
- 1:26Speaker 2: We have situational things, you know, Like my husband was saying,
- 1:29Speaker 2: my husband got his masters in school counseling many years ago,
- 1:35Speaker 2: and so he said, you take somebody that's got they're together,
- 1:39Speaker 2: they're put together, their mental health is perfect. And then
- 1:42Speaker 2: one day they lose their job. Their wife calls and says,
- 1:46Speaker 2: I'm leaving you for another man. The neighbor goes off
- 1:49Speaker 2: on him because they didn't because he mowed on his
- 1:51Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, that person that's so put
- 1:53Speaker 2: together flies off the handle. Oh yeah, and people see that,
- 1:57Speaker 2: they're like, oh, something must have been wrong. He's like, no,
- 2:00Speaker 2: this is life. Life is hard, it's it's good, it's bad,
- 2:03Speaker 2: it's all the things. And so what we're seeing is
- 2:07Speaker 2: being able to deal with any situation, being happy, being sad.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Those are all just part of emotions that we all experience,
- 2:15Speaker 2: and we just need to figure out how to deal
- 2:16Speaker 2: with them. But our country right now is horrible at
- 2:19Speaker 2: diagnosing everything and throwing pills at people.
- 2:23Speaker 1: You know, my dad would my dad's a doctor, and
- 2:25Speaker 1: when he was in medical school one of the things
- 2:27Speaker 1: he's talked about. I was like one at the time,
- 2:30Speaker 1: so I don't remember this directly, but it is something
- 2:32Speaker 1: he's talked about throughout his life. And I remember this
- 2:35Speaker 1: that when he was in medical school, he was going
- 2:38Speaker 1: through the books and whatever new disease came up in
- 2:41Speaker 1: medical school, he was fairly convinced he had.
- 2:42Speaker 2: That hypochondriac kind of yeah, but it's something that power
- 2:47Speaker 2: of somebody else.
- 2:48Speaker 1: You see in medical schools a lot is that as
- 2:51Speaker 1: you read, I think I have chicken pies, right, you know,
- 2:54Speaker 1: and and my thumb hurts, maybe I have arthritis. You know,
- 2:58Speaker 1: you get that type of that suggestion of once you
- 3:02Speaker 1: see a problem that you didn't know was actually a
- 3:04Speaker 1: diagnosable problem, you start going, well, maybe me too, and
- 3:09Speaker 1: are we doing that as a society.
- 3:11Speaker 3: That you're saying, like, is a social contagion in a West?
- 3:13Speaker 1: She did, Yeah, somewhat that you know, my kids are
- 3:16Speaker 1: convinced I have ADHD, because sometimes, you know, I get
- 3:20Speaker 1: a hyper focused on something.
- 3:22Speaker 3: Well, when you're living in a when you live in
- 3:24Speaker 3: a nation where in order to get into college you
- 3:27Speaker 3: have to give an essay about some sort of adversity.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Yes, that you've overcome.
- 3:31Speaker 3: Yeah, that you've overcome. You lend that to making you
- 3:35Speaker 3: force people to try to sometimes make up stuff. Absolutely. Wait,
- 3:39Speaker 3: I think I'm fine, but that won't get me in. Well,
- 3:42Speaker 3: you know, I lost my great great great aunt and
- 3:45Speaker 3: then I went to a depression. Like it's almost like
- 3:47Speaker 3: you said, it becomes like you know, that's your beauty mark. Yeah,
- 3:51Speaker 3: where you are I want to be known for. I'm
- 3:54Speaker 3: the girl that had like do you remember there was
- 3:57Speaker 3: a woke girl that she had her head shaved. She
- 3:59Speaker 3: was on TV recently and she was listing all the
- 4:02Speaker 3: things she was against Trump and she's like, I'm an
- 4:05Speaker 3: illegal immigrant, and I am on food stamps, and I
- 4:09Speaker 3: am by and I am a trans man. Do you
- 4:12Speaker 3: remember that? The different and it's like love me with
- 4:17Speaker 3: each with each item that she listed in her mind.
- 4:20Speaker 3: That's making people because they were cheering louder and louder
- 4:23Speaker 3: and louder. It's almost like, oh, and I also have
- 4:26Speaker 3: a hung tonel. I mean it's like like they feed
- 4:30Speaker 3: off of those parts of you that are broken. And
- 4:34Speaker 3: it feels like we need to get back to saying,
- 4:37Speaker 3: you know the champion part is what you were saying,
- 4:39Speaker 3: Like what Mike said, it's that's life.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Well, well the other thing is like you need to
- 4:44Speaker 2: get back to I saw this interview with this doctor
- 4:46Speaker 2: and he said one of the things that he feels
- 4:48Speaker 2: like people are going to look back on is being
- 4:49Speaker 2: the worst thing that's ever happened. Is not the pandemic.
- 4:52Speaker 2: It's it's the amount of people that are being diagnosed
- 4:55Speaker 2: with a mental problem and being put on drugs. He goes,
- 4:58Speaker 2: that is going to be something we look back on
- 5:00Speaker 2: as being the worst thing that happened to our country.
- 5:02Speaker 2: And I feel like it's like go run, go, yeah, yes,
- 5:05Speaker 2: get behind Indeed, it's like you need to get back
- 5:08Speaker 2: to off.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Of your phone, go enjoy life.
- 5:12Speaker 1: And I really hope that for folks that that are
- 5:14Speaker 1: diagnosed with a mental illness that that doesn't become an
- 5:17Speaker 1: excuse to stay put.
- 5:18Speaker 3: Yes, that don't focus on that.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Right that. How do you move forward?
- 5:22Speaker 3: That's right?
- 5:23Speaker 1: How do you move forward with with Okay, so maybe
- 5:25Speaker 1: you don't think the way other people, maybe your brain
- 5:27Speaker 1: doesn't work the exact same way other people's brains work.
- 5:30Speaker 1: How do you adjust so that you continue to move forward? Yes,
- 5:35Speaker 1: rather than simply sitting in an identity of a diagnosis
- 5:40Speaker 1: that tells you you can stay put exactly. If you
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- 5:46Speaker 1: click on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Nuttville, Kimberly
- 5:49Speaker 1: B listen. Thank you so much. You