Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again.

Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged, happy new year to everybody out there who follows our program and supports us.

It's a very humbling experience to do this and have you guys welcome us into your lives with our shared

life experiences, education, clinical experiences, and our continued passion and dedication to

what I, my original goal of starting this podcast was to demystify mental health to

destigmatize mental health and most importantly to give a sense of hope that things can be

overcome things can be put into remission um it's it's a very nebulous world it's something i think

we continue to struggle with as a culture.

I'm one person trying to make a difference in an entire world that struggles with mental health.

And we live in a very chaotic world.

We live in a very uncertain world, in certain times. Devisiveness, conflict,

division, it permeates our culture. Some people are blind to it. Some people become totally

immersed in it. Some people remain ignorant to it.

And I don't know which one of those three is the best option, but I do think being informed of what's going on around us is an incredibly important part of our responsibility as individuals living in a civilized, hopefully civilized, um, environment

or society. So New Year's is always this funny kind of time of year where, um, I think we take

stock and step back and look at, um, the memories of the past year past year and and i think we enter this current

the current year um as in years past and years to come with with a set of um expectations and plans

and uh resolutions uh and lists of wanting more of this and doing less of this and and

you know whether it's exercise or reducing alcohol use or kind of quitting smoking exercising more

being kinder to our partners um you know it it kind of has this, the New Year's has this,

I think, nebulous quality to it, like, okay, it's our chance to kind of reboot like we do

with our computers, a fresh start. And that's something that, you know, we do this in a different episode, a lot of, you know, we do with our computers, a fresh start.

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