What If Stress Isn’t Just in Your Head? The Mind, Body & Soul Connection with Miriam Putnam EP369

Well, yeah, I mean, I think across the board, that is probably true because we've seen a huge shift in the family dynamic, right? Both the man and the woman have to be working.

Kids are at school longer days.

Summers are shorter.

There's lots more technology.

And so the inflow of social media and video games and all these sort of things.

People just get bombarded.

When we were kids, it was just a normal television and it wasn't screens weren't everywhere you went.

So I think that that definitely lends to a lot of stress as well.

And we have this, I don't know, ingrained capitalistic society almost within us in America, which is.

um fight to get to the next stage and then feeling kind of bad about it if you don't get there as fast as possible so i think that we overall do have a little bit more stress going on it seems like a while ago it used to be like a little bit more of a family-centered religion-centered more spiritual sort of society.

And it seems to have broken away from that a bit more.

I agree with you.

I definitely agree with you.

And then I think, I say a lot of times when I'm talking about mental health advocacy, that it's unfortunate that we as a society think that we are supposed to go to our doctors and ask for mental or spiritual advice when in fact, doctors are really good at biological emergency care.

You break your bone, you need a specific blood test, you're worried about your heart murmur, you're worried about something that is not actually functioning correctly, then that is the field that doctors are really good at.

And when you enter in the mental and the spiritual realm, it is out of the doctor's specialty area unless you're going to someone who is specialized in that field.

Right.

And so then I think that it puts the doctors in a bad position because they want to help.

And so their hands are tied and then they're unfortunately writing prescription medications to offer a bandaid.

And then that compounds with the underlying body health conditions that exist.

Right.

Because, you know, body health conditions exacerbate the mental health.

experiences and symptoms that we go through.

So if somebody doesn't get the correct test and find their allergies, find the hormone problem, find maybe the liver toxicity, there's too much metal in the body, right? The list goes on and on and on for what can be found in the body that's actually giving a quote-unquote mental illness symptom.

So, yeah, the drugs are often given on top of an undetected body health situation.