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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Coast to Coast George nor with your story.

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Speaker 1: I had last week showed that the suicide rates are

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Speaker 1: going up at such an alarming rate that the life expectancy,

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Speaker 1: the average of you know, how long you're going to

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Speaker 1: live as it's all tossed in, is going down instead

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Speaker 1: of up because of the high suicides. Doctor George Pratt

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Speaker 1: is a clinical psychologist. He's a bestselling author with a

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Speaker 1: private practice in Lahoya, California for more than thirty years.

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Speaker 1: I specializes in helping people resolve emotional blocks and a

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Speaker 1: chief success. He specializes in mind body techniques, hypnosis, psychotherapy,

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Speaker 1: and performance enhancement. He has served as the Chairman of

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Speaker 1: the Psychology at Script's Memorial Hospital in Lahoya on the staff.

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Speaker 1: He's also a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis,

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Speaker 1: Vice President of Making the World a Better Place Foundation.

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Speaker 1: My pleasure to bring it back. Why is it taking

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Speaker 1: you so long to get back on the show? George

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Speaker 1: Church is always good to talk to. I think we've

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Speaker 1: both been busy. I think so too. Well. It's good

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Speaker 1: to have you back in. Happy holidays to you and everything.

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Speaker 1: This alarming report about suicides going up so high that

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Speaker 1: is bringing our average life expectancy rate down. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: It seems scary. We had, on average since in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: three example, forty five thousand suicides and in the age

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Speaker 1: group of fifteen to thirty four, suicide is the second

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Speaker 1: leading cause of death, and that's really unfortunate. We've got.

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Speaker 1: One of the major factors is a dramatic rise in

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Speaker 1: opioid addiction. There's lots of opioid overdoses that are going

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Speaker 1: on and there's a strong relationship with when we have

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Speaker 1: economic downturns, there are more deaths to suicide. So if

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Speaker 1: you're having financial problems, you want to be talking to

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Speaker 1: somebody to help you manage the circumstances. But between these

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Speaker 1: kinds of statistics and the economy and opioid addiction, it's very,

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Speaker 1: very dangerous. And one of the problems with the opioids

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Speaker 1: is there twice as likely to attempt suicide as people

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Speaker 1: who do don't use them. So that's one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons that our life expectancy is going down. It's going down.

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Speaker 1: It is going down, and we don't want that. I

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Speaker 1: mean the healthy people. It's probably still going up with

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Speaker 1: people who take care of themselves, but the average is

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Speaker 1: coming down because of the high suicide rate, right, and

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Speaker 1: the people that commit suicide, even though many of them,

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Speaker 1: the majority, are not in any kind of therapy, ninety

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Speaker 1: upon more rigorous investigation, ninety percent will have evidence of

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Speaker 1: a mental health condition and they're not getting help for it.

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Speaker 1: So that is between not getting mental health help and

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Speaker 1: then being more vulnerable to opioids. They're in a very

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Speaker 1: day dangerous situation. And if you can imagine people in

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Speaker 1: that age range and then having children and then they're

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Speaker 1: very sad situation. So we want to we want to

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Speaker 1: do something about it. We want to make to the

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Speaker 1: statistics better and have us living longer and happier so

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Speaker 1: that we have quality of life. And that's what that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm interested in, and I know you are too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so the problems associated with a suicide most frequently,

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Speaker 1: you know, they start off with strained relationships, life stressors

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Speaker 1: of some sort, finances, substance abuse problems as number four,

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Speaker 1: and then physical health conditions. So suicide is an issue

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Speaker 1: mental health professionals are saying, not only for them mentally ill,

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Speaker 1: but for anyone struggling with serious lifestyle issues. What do

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Speaker 1: you think of assisted suicide? You know, I know that

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Speaker 1: that's been bandied around for a long time, and in

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Speaker 1: certain situations, I'm you know, I could consider that as

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Speaker 1: an option for someone not in California, but in other

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Speaker 1: know other states have been exploring it and it's available,

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Speaker 1: particularly for screening for mental health issues, and then also

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Speaker 1: Doctor George Pratt with us. His websites are linked up

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Speaker 1: at Coast to coastam dot com. Doctor when we take

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Speaker 1: is it appropriate to ask people who may have contemplated

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Speaker 1: Whatever people are needing. We want to make the world

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Speaker 1: can we blame social network for that? You know, that

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Speaker 1: your risk for depression goes up significantly. It just it

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Speaker 1: You're watching someone else, and then you're feeling inferior because

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Speaker 1: I pay a bill online, I get depressed. I think

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Speaker 1: that's I think that's pretty normal. Charges you imagine doing

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Speaker 1: rather have people do healthy things out in nature, get

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Speaker 1: fractals are your friends. Not so much social media for

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Speaker 1: an extended period time. Give us an example. Of course,

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Speaker 1: But of a patient or someone who came to you

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Speaker 1: them through a process to get them out of that mood. Well,

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