Aug 14, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 12 segments
In this episode, I sit down with psychotherapist Ryan Soave for a wide-ranging conversation about addiction, obsession, anxiety, and the pressures of modern life. We discuss why addictive behaviors…
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Do you have any kind of macro thesis or hypothesis on why it is that it seems like mental health issues are on the rise? So many people are struggling with them.
Maybe 300 years ago, 400 years ago, 1,000 years ago, they were even worse, given that the...
the necessity to survive was was much different and there were real actual threats like tigers and warring tribes back in the day and so therefore you would sort of expect that anxiety levels nervous system dysregulation would be worse 500 years ago when you're living among uh various threatening species and various kinds of tribal conflict um but Some people also theorize that it's actually gotten worse over the last 100 years due to all kinds of novel conditions that are distinct from our ancestral environment.
So do you think mental health issues are on the rise over the last, say, like 100 years? And do you have any thoughts on why that may be? Well, there's...
on the rise over the last hundred years because we didn't really classify them that
And I think that, you know, that definitely plays, plays a part, but I, but I, but I think that's not the whole reason.
I don't remember what it was where it said, like, we're focusing more on mental health than we ever have, but it seems to be getting worse, at least by the metrics that, that, that, that we have, you know, we're Sometimes I'll think about, you know, if I had an ancestor, you know, a lot of my family comes from Italy.
And, you know, some they were, you know, farming or whatever they were doing and dealing with harsh conditions and all of this stuff like.
like if I could meet them and tell them like what I was scared about today or how, like I had this really bad day and it was because, you know, my microphone from my podcast, the podcast I was doing for rafted and like connect, you know, someone didn't respond to your email.
Do you have any kind of macro thesis or hypothesis on why it is that it seems like mental health issues are on the rise? So many people are struggling with them.
Maybe 300 years ago, 400 years ago, 1,000 years ago, they were even worse, given that the...
the necessity to survive was was much different and there were real actual threats like tigers and warring tribes back in the day and so therefore you would sort of expect that anxiety levels nervous system dysregulation would be worse 500 years ago when you're living among uh various threatening species and various kinds of tribal conflict um but Some people also theorize that it's actually gotten worse over the last 100 years due to all kinds of novel conditions that are distinct from our ancestral environment.
So do you think mental health issues are on the rise over the last, say, like 100 years? And do you have any thoughts on why that may be? Well, there's...
on the rise over the last hundred years because we didn't really classify them that
And I think that, you know, that definitely plays, plays a part, but I, but I, but I think that's not the whole reason.
I don't remember what it was where it said, like, we're focusing more on mental health than we ever have, but it seems to be getting worse, at least by the metrics that, that, that, that we have, you know, we're Sometimes I'll think about, you know, if I had an ancestor, you know, a lot of my family comes from Italy.
And, you know, some they were, you know, farming or whatever they were doing and dealing with harsh conditions and all of this stuff like.
like if I could meet them and tell them like what I was scared about today or how, like I had this really bad day and it was because, you know, my microphone from my podcast, the podcast I was doing for rafted and like connect, you know, someone didn't respond to your email.
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