Speaker 1: Hey, fam I'm Jada Pinkett Smith. Check out this exclusive
Speaker 1: Red Table Talk bonus content. We are in a global
Speaker 1: mental health crisis. We have brought in a pioneering psychologist
Speaker 1: who literally wrote the mental health handbook, Dr Alfie Breeland Noble.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for having me. Doctor. Can you
Speaker 1: tell us what depression is? There are primarily three types
Speaker 1: of depressive illness. We talk about popolar disorder right the
Speaker 1: highs and loans. Everybody knows that. And then there's what
Speaker 1: we call major depressive disorder. And that's the one that
Speaker 1: I think many of us think about when we think
Speaker 1: of depression, where you're not functioning almost at all. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get out of the bit, it's hard to concentrate,
Speaker 1: it's hard to focus, it's hard to engage in conversation,
Speaker 1: you're crying all the time, those kinds of things. And
Speaker 1: then there's what we call persistent depressive disorder. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a low grade. And that's also what some people
Speaker 1: will turn pi function in depression, just the low grade
Speaker 1: all the time, just kind of down. The person who
Speaker 1: walks around with the cloud hanging over their head. But
Speaker 1: they're able to function, they're able to get out of
Speaker 1: the bed in the morning, they're able to go to work,
Speaker 1: They're able to have a conversation with you. It's not debilitating.
Speaker 1: So when we think about high functioning depression, often what
Speaker 1: we're thinking about is someone who's almost walking around with
Speaker 1: the mask you might not necessarily know. I think there's
Speaker 1: so much high functioning depression happening, especially in this time,
Speaker 1: for sure. I remember Michelle Obama talked about walking around
Speaker 1: with a mouth depression. When you mentioned that, that's what
Speaker 1: comes to mind for me. So people like Anthony Borden
Speaker 1: and Kate Space fall into that category, because what do
Speaker 1: we see Anthony boardin all over the world enjoying food,
Speaker 1: living life, having fun, Kate Spade running the whole business.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of pressure to stay so
Speaker 1: the bear. Where is the room when they have a child?
Speaker 1: Where is the room to ab with what you're dealing with?
Speaker 1: And there's so many of us who are struggling with it,
Speaker 1: who don't know what to do with it, who don't
Speaker 1: know how to share with people that you know, and
Speaker 1: how to express themselves. That even if you would go
Speaker 1: to your job and you still can function in relationships,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, Can I really call it depression? Or
Speaker 1: am I? You know? So you're kind of confused yourself.
Speaker 1: The difference in like, am I going through a bad moment?
Speaker 1: Am I having a difficult time as an individual? Just
Speaker 1: trying to be able to decipher what's actually happening? How
Speaker 1: can you actually tell if someone is depressed if they
Speaker 1: hide the signs? You want to be looking for these
Speaker 1: symptoms to be hanging around and present for at least
Speaker 1: two weeks. So sadness, right, that's a key indicator of depression. Crying,
Speaker 1: you don't know where the client is coming from. Significant
Speaker 1: changes in eating and sleeping habits. Right, you sleep all
Speaker 1: the time, you barely sleep. You up all night and
Speaker 1: sleep all day. It's hard to get motivated, low energy,
Speaker 1: like being foggy, you just can't focus. Those are all
Speaker 1: signs and symptoms. I think one that we don't talk about,
Speaker 1: especially those of us who are black and people of color,
Speaker 1: is irritability. Right, y'all know the person right got one
Speaker 1: nerve and you getting on it. Right. I thought about
Speaker 1: that just like constantly, and just like I feel that
Speaker 1: constantly annoyed. Right, the people that you kind of don't
Speaker 1: want to be around when you're depressed, what do you want?
Speaker 1: You want to be left alone? How do you get
Speaker 1: people to leave you alone? If you look like this,
Speaker 1: people who whist wrong, you're But if your right, your
Speaker 1: body wants to be by, and you get your needs met,
Speaker 1: that need, that depression is telling you want to be by, isolated.
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