S2E3 Clip

. . . well, I would tell you, Mic, that what I teach should be taught to all of us in high school. Okay? It's a basic life skill. But nobody's going to make a whole lot of money on you looking inside of yourself, understanding these fundamental life-truths, being a better version of yourself. The way the system is designed to treat nurses is when they struggle, they'll go to mental health. The first thing they'll be asked is, 'Do you need meds?' You'll get an anti-anxiety med, right? You'll get a sleep med. You'll get an anti-anger pill. Marines call that the 'zombie cocktail.' You'll get all that, and then you can go to therapy for the rest of your life. If you look at our statistics for suicide and for people on antidepressants, all those numbers do is go up. And so I would tell you that it's a flawed approach. And all you've got to do is look at the data. I saw this in the Marine Corps. And then as I began to interview people, everybody thinks that veteran suicide is combat-related. Hardly any veterans go to war. The number of veterans who go to war is very small. OK, so then when I start interviewing them (The ones that killed themselves) - what do I find? Did he go to Iraq? Yeah, he was in Iraq, but that's not why he killed himself. Right. He killed himself because his uncle started raping him when he was seven. That's why he left home at 18. and his wife left him because he was struggling financially. He was drinking, he went to Mental Health he took the drugs, he quit and then he wouldn't go back there. He was in this isolated space - then they were going to foreclose on his house and that's when he killed himself. He couldn't take any more because we never taught him how to deal with this . . ."