From Rumination to Mental Strength – Anson Whitmer (Calm/Mental App)
The New Man
How I Created Mental
When he was 19, my uncle who'd been living with us, he killed himself. He basically couldn't let go of things that happened to him as a kid and it ultimately led to struggles with depression and anxiety and suicide. I want to understand what caused that, like, what could we do about it? That ended up doing my PhD, my postdoc Stanford. And I think we made tremendous strides in understanding the causes of mental illness. But it was starting to come really clear to me that we were doing so little to scale up its solutions.
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