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Alec Widge

Sep 25, 2026

Sean Maloney
Sean MaloneyCORRESPONDENT
15:59
disorders.
16:05
And what I would add to that is part of the challenge is that we continue to have new treatments for depression, for anxiety, even for disorders like schizophrenia.
16:18
But one of the things we're seeing is that suicidality is one of those things that isn't always affected by those treatments.
16:27
that it is really one of the most challenging problems in mental health specifically because it's hard to move that needle.
16:37
And it just wears on people chronically, waking up every day thinking, oh my gosh, why am I still here? Why can't I just be done with life? The other thing that that means is that when someone shows up, in an emergency room or presents for the first time for mental health care, it's often that, wow, I'm having these thoughts that I'd be better off dead.
17:04
What can you do about them? And when the answer is, well, I can offer you treatment, but it may or may not do something right now about the thing that is bothering you, that's very, very, very, very unsatisfying for patients and for their families.
17:20
And so that's one of the reasons we really, as Michael was saying, have focused down on Suicidality is the specific problem we're going after rather than any specific mental health diagnosis.
Sean Maloney
Sean MaloneyCORRESPONDENT
18:01
Is there anything else either of you wanted to maybe add or expand on when it comes to how you go about maybe the study or the research or what you wanted to really focus on? I know you touched on it a little bit there, Michael, but is there anything else that either of you want to kind of expand on?

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