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  • 00:00Today, what do you consider the biggest health challenge facing the United States on the people in the United States? You know, it's a great question. I mean, there there are so many challenges we're dealing with. Obviously, we're still dealing with a pandemic and we need to be make sure that we're prepared for the next one that may come down the line. We have a whole bevy of chronic illnesses that people are struggling with from obesity to heart disease. But the one that's actually most on my mind and that which I'm most deeply concerned about, that I see is foundational to our health is actually the mental health crisis that we have in our country. It turns out that when you struggle with your mental health, as certainly I have at points in my life and I've taken care of many patients over the years who struggle with their mental health. But when you struggle with your mental health, it doesn't just impact how you feel. It impacts your physical health as well. It impacts how you show up at work. I can impact productivity, absenteeism in the workplace and also impacts how our children perform in school and how they learn. And so however you cut it, I think of our mental health is the fuel that allows us to show up for our family and friends, for our community. And when our mental health is negatively impacted and compromises all those fronts, and that's what we're dealing with right now. You know, if you look at the numbers, David, they're really staggering, especially among youth. Right. You know, if you look at the population overall, about 5 percent of people in 2020 had suicidal ideation. They contemplated taking their own life. You look at kids in particular, and you see that there was a 57 percent increase in the suicide rate in the 10 years preceding the pandemic. And things have gotten more challenging for many kids. Now, when I worked in the White House for President Carter, his wife, Rosalynn Carter, headed a mental health task force. And it was seen seen at the time as somewhat unusual for a first lady to be interested in that subject. And in part, she'd always been interested in it. And she recognized there was a stigma attached to mental health. Now we're. Forty five years later. What do you think? There is still a stigma attached to mental health as opposed to physical health problems? Well, I do, David. I think it's gotten better certainly than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago. But I still see that stigma all the time. I see it. One of the conversations I have with people especially, it's a stronger stigma in my generation and older generations. Younger generations are less affected by it, but they are, too. I still see a reluctance to talk about, you know, needing help and about being a bully or being the victim of abuse, which contributes to mental health struggles. But the other piece I think it's important is it's not just in our words and actions that I see that stigma. I see it actually structurally as well. You look at how we reimburse for mental health care in our country. And despite passing in 2008 mental health parity law, that law has been unevenly enforced and it needs to be stronger. So it's harder for people to actually get mental health care in our system than it is for them to get care for their physical health issues. So we still have a long way to go to close that gap.
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Dr. Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General, says the mental health crisis is the biggest concern facing the country because it impacts so many people and different facets of life. He's on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." This was recorded Oct. 26. (Source: Bloomberg)


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