Elizabeth Hadion: Growing up in a house where the whole notion of emotional expression is not something that you get the opportunity to do very much. So there's a challenge because just because you don't allow yourself to pay attention to your emotional state doesn't mean that your brain isn't experiencing it. But that means that you can end up finding, and we're going to find all kinds of ways to cope with the whole range of emotional state that I experienced growing up. All right. That gives us a little flavor about what we, what I mean when we talk about mental flourishing, emotional flourishing. And I think we can head into Q&A and we can answer more questions.
Scholars, journalists, practitioners, and other thought leaders all agree — we’re facing a loneliness epidemic that’s as grave a threat to public health as obesity or substance abuse. Where do we go from here?
In this Forum from 2019 at the University of Minnesota, psychiatrist Curt Thompson discusses human flourishing and community. When it comes to mental health, he says, don’t go it alone.