Making sure my patient's mental health has always been a big part of my teaching and way of practicing medicine so on today's episode follow along where I discuss why your mental health is just as important than the physical one. Today's episode is an important one as we touch on various aspects of it, well talk about why its important for primary care providers to take a more proactive role in assessing it as early as possible and why it is more common than you think to suffer from mental health issues. 

Links/Resources 

• Can't pray it away
• Medical Spotlight on Depression
• MHA

In this episode you will learn:

• Troubling facts about Mental Health
• Barriers to access to Mental Health Care
• Who is affected the most
• How many people commit suicide yearly?

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