Sep 22, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 16 segments
Be honest: you've taken a mental health day that made you feel worse. You stayed in bed, you avoided the thing, and by evening it was still waiting for you—with less of the day left to face it. Amy…
Simon SinekHost
Amy MorinGuest
But what we're talking about, I think, is the more pervasive feeling that people have that I am dealing with my mental health or I have mental health challenges, which is there's no diagnosable issue there.
Some of the examples you're talking about, you're overwhelmed, you don't feel like going to work.
Do I have mental health issues?
And now I'm diagnosing myself because I hear that somebody else who does have mental fitness challenges Again, I'm so fascinated.
It's like, why is your business booming? You know, it's like, it shouldn't, I wouldn't want it to be, no offense.
I want you to hang a sign out the door saying, I'll help you with your mental health and nobody knocks, you know?
And I think, say, 10, 15 years ago, it was really about if you had a mental illness, so your doctor might send you to therapy.
In today's world of social media and influencers who are often talking about these issues and using labels incorrectly, and we're talking so much about mental health.
Yeah.
That people are going to therapy, not because they're sick, but because they're, say, have a narcissistic ex-boyfriend that was gaslighting them.
And then the problem with my industry is, is your insurance company is going to pay me a pretty small amount to see you.
So it used to be that therapists only saw people with a mental illness because they were getting reimbursement from insurance companies.
Now a lot of therapists are charging a private play, so you don't necessarily have to have a mental illness.
But what we're talking about, I think, is the more pervasive feeling that people have that I am dealing with my mental health or I have mental health challenges, which is there's no diagnosable issue there.
Some of the examples you're talking about, you're overwhelmed, you don't feel like going to work.
Do I have mental health issues?
And now I'm diagnosing myself because I hear that somebody else who does have mental fitness challenges Again, I'm so fascinated.
It's like, why is your business booming? You know, it's like, it shouldn't, I wouldn't want it to be, no offense.
I want you to hang a sign out the door saying, I'll help you with your mental health and nobody knocks, you know?
And I think, say, 10, 15 years ago, it was really about if you had a mental illness, so your doctor might send you to therapy.
In today's world of social media and influencers who are often talking about these issues and using labels incorrectly, and we're talking so much about mental health.
Yeah.
That people are going to therapy, not because they're sick, but because they're, say, have a narcissistic ex-boyfriend that was gaslighting them.
And then the problem with my industry is, is your insurance company is going to pay me a pretty small amount to see you.
So it used to be that therapists only saw people with a mental illness because they were getting reimbursement from insurance companies.
Now a lot of therapists are charging a private play, so you don't necessarily have to have a mental illness.
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