Overcoming loneliness with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thinks about public health holistically. Whether he's addressing youth mental health crises, the loneliness epidemic or serving on the White House's COVID-19 pandemic response team, Vivek is dedicated to improving well-being. In a live conversation, Vivek and Adam discuss the individual and collective foundations of belonging and wellness.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:05.0	People are much more than their diagnosis and that if we don't understand how they are receiving their experience emotionally as well as physically,
0:15.8	then we're missing half of the entire human experience here and we can't treat them as well.
0:20.7	We can build relationships. Hey everyone, it's Adam Graham.
0:26.5	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick
0:30.8	with the TED Audio Collective.
0:32.7	I'm an organizational psychologist,
0:34.5	and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
0:37.4	to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:48.8	My guest today is Surgeon General Vavek Murphy. He's led the US through major health crises, including the Ebola virus outbreak and the ongoing opioid epidemic.
0:53.0	Vavake is the author of Together
0:55.0	and hosts the podcast House Calls.
0:58.0	He's also been outspoken in calling loneliness
1:01.0	a public health epidemic.
1:03.0	So I'm curious just by showing hands.
1:04.4	How many people here know somebody in your life
1:06.2	who is struggling with loneliness or isolation?
1:09.1	Almost everyone.
1:10.0	Every place I go, Adam, when I ask, audience is this.
1:13.7	This is the same response.
1:14.6	Almost every hand goes up in the room.
1:17.1	I invited Vivake to join me in a live conversation
	...

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