Reaction to John Oliver on Mental Health
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your listeners. A lot of you have been asking me to react to this week's last week |
| 0:04.4 | tonight episode with John Oliver, which is about mental health. Let's watch. My name is |
| 0:08.5 | Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist at a professor. Let's see what they say, because there should |
| 0:12.3 | not be a stigma around seeking help for mental health issues. And especially now, given |
| 0:17.4 | that over the last two years, we've seen a spike in them. Join the pandemic about four |
| 0:21.7 | in 10 adults in the US have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder. That's up |
| 0:26.5 | from one in 10 who'd reported them a year before. Yeah, anecdotally, I would agree with |
| 0:31.2 | that. Absolutely. That there has been a recent, sharp spike in the last two years during |
| 0:36.1 | the pandemic of anxiety, depression. I would also add relationship distress, substance use |
| 0:42.0 | issues. Yeah, there's a huge demand for therapy and not enough therapists and not enough |
| 0:47.9 | funding. But as people increasingly do seek help, they're discovering a system that is |
| 0:51.9 | just not set up to provide it. There have long been weightless to see a therapist, but |
| 0:56.9 | it has gotten significantly worse since the pandemic with 65% of psychologists reporting |
| 1:02.1 | they had no capacity for new patients. I'm actually surprised. It's that low. And |
| 1:07.6 | anecdotally, I would say 90 plus percent of the therapists that I know are at capacity |
| 1:13.6 | or very close to it. It's really a big problem. Now, you would say, well, we just need more |
| 1:19.5 | clinicians and we do. And if you're thinking about becoming a clinician, all you got to |
| 1:23.6 | do is look at this and say, wow, I mean, there's work for you. But the other thing I would |
| 1:27.0 | say is that funding is a problem because for insurance companies and also for individuals |
| 1:32.7 | who have kind of limited insurance in the United States, they can't afford it or they |
| 1:37.2 | can afford very little or their insurance only has behavioral management systems like |
| 1:41.9 | HMOs, Kaiser Permanente, these kinds of places. They will try to route you to therapists |
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