Dr. Varun Soni - The Mental Health Crisis Explained

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Varun Soni is the Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, where he is the chief religious and spiritual leader for over 45,000 students. He has been featured on ABC News, Forbes, NPR, and The Los Angeles Times; he also has a close relationship with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He sits down with Victoria to discuss the current mental health crisis facing students throughout the country, and why so many are battling with issues of meaning, purpose, and loneliness. This is an incredibly eye-opening interview for anyone currently in high-school, college, or who has friends and family in those age groups.

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0:00.0	Post-millennials are the first generation in human history to be born and raised entirely
0:05.0	in a social media environment.
0:07.0	These are students who have constantly compared their real lives to the idealized Instagram
0:11.5	curated lives of others.
0:13.2	These are students who have talked with their thumbs more than their tongues.
0:16.3	Their students may have 10,000 friends online, but come to campus and struggle to make a
0:20.8	friend offline.
0:21.8	Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod.
0:26.4	I'm Victoria Garrick, former D1 athlete and mental health and body image advocate and
0:31.0	I'll be your host.
0:32.4	We've got awesome guests, weekly inspiration in our bringing you the realist conversations
0:37.4	about everything and anything.
0:39.6	Now let's give real life.
0:41.4	Hello and welcome back to RealPod.
0:44.4	I'm thinking of all of you out there today.
0:46.2	I know this is stressful, crazy times that we're currently in.
0:50.2	It's, you know, very disruptive.
0:52.1	Our whole lifestyle and the norm has been completely flipped upside down.
0:56.5	It's also very sad.
0:58.2	Many situations out there, looting loved ones, financial heartaches.
1:02.2	It's very sad as well.
1:03.6	And I'm thinking of all of you and hopefully today's podcast episode can just bring an
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