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Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Irony of Mental Health

When we use the phrase mental health right now, what we actually mean is mental distress. And I think that one thing you're doing with your emphasis on loneliness and isolation is a way into all that. We have over thousands of years, we've evolved to live in connection with one another. That seems perhaps a little counterintuitive in the current age where we seem to in modern society value independence.

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