The Signals Beneath the Symptoms: Stop Asking What's Wrong With Me and Ask This Instead

Well, the big idea really is about mental health being more of a regulation story, that, you know, the brain needs to regulate itself.

We all know that.

We, we tend to regulate ourselves even though we don't maybe think in that language.

But mental health, the larger picture is that, you know, we're in a mental health crisis state overall, uh, more so than maybe any other time in recent history, according to the American Psychological Association and some of their evaluations of people since 2020.

Uh, so anxiety and depression and OCD, even addiction, are on such a exponential rise, and we wanted to have a, a new paradigm somewhat when it comes to mental health.

So the previous paradigm would be what is the diagnosis, right?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Instead of just asking what is the diagnosis, the new paradigm might be what signals might be driving this state.

So when we think about signals and the clarity of signals and what interferes with signals in our brain, we can think about many different things.

We can think about the information coming into our brain.

Mm-hmm.

Signals, right?

Mm-hmm.

Through the eyes and the vestibular system when we move our head, and the signals coming in through from our body through our muscles and joints, and even our internal organs signaling into the brain feedback, and then the heart and breathing signaling into the brain.

All these could be potential drivers.

Then we go down deep, dive into the, the blood on a more microscopic level, and hormones and metabolic factors could be driving this state.

That's right.

The immune system and inflammation could be driving this mental health state.

And then, of course, we'll step back out into the environment, our immediate environment around us in our home and our family, and then the world environment.

So we can go from the outside in and the inside out and start considering what signals might be driving this mental health state.

Mm-hmm.

And then we have to decide really, what does all of this mean, and what should I do about it? So we have to be able to have a physician or a clinician that can synthesize these different signals rather quickly with some cohesion and determine where those signals might be improved.

Yeah, I like that.

And then when we consider...

Well, the big idea really is about mental health being more of a regulation story, that, you know, the brain needs to regulate itself.

We all know that.

We, we tend to regulate ourselves even though we don't maybe think in that language.

But mental health, the larger picture is that, you know, we're in a mental health crisis state overall, uh, more so than maybe any other time in recent history, according to the American Psychological Association and some of their evaluations of people since 2020.

Uh, so anxiety and depression and OCD, even addiction, are on such a exponential rise, and we wanted to have a, a new paradigm somewhat when it comes to mental health.

So the previous paradigm would be what is the diagnosis, right?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Instead of just asking what is the diagnosis, the new paradigm might be what signals might be driving this state.

So when we think about signals and the clarity of signals and what interferes with signals in our brain, we can think about many different things.

We can think about the information coming into our brain.

Mm-hmm.

Signals, right?

Mm-hmm.

Through the eyes and the vestibular system when we move our head, and the signals coming in through from our body through our muscles and joints, and even our internal organs signaling into the brain feedback, and then the heart and breathing signaling into the brain.

All these could be potential drivers.

Then we go down deep, dive into the, the blood on a more microscopic level, and hormones and metabolic factors could be driving this state.

That's right.

The immune system and inflammation could be driving this mental health state.

And then, of course, we'll step back out into the environment, our immediate environment around us in our home and our family, and then the world environment.

So we can go from the outside in and the inside out and start considering what signals might be driving this mental health state.

Mm-hmm.

And then we have to decide really, what does all of this mean, and what should I do about it? So we have to be able to have a physician or a clinician that can synthesize these different signals rather quickly with some cohesion and determine where those signals might be improved.

Yeah, I like that.

And then when we consider...