Episode 278: Better than 20 Billion Dollars: A Litany For Mental Health
Being Human
$20 billion in research. Suicide rates 32% higher than the year 2000. Something is deeply wrong — and it isn't a lack of effort. In this episode, Dr. Greg makes the case that the mental health crisis isn't a funding problem or an awareness problem. It's a standard problem. Without a vision of what a healthy human person actually looks like, the best we can do is manage symptoms. And he introduces something new: a Mental Health Litany and Novena beginning May 15th — nine days of prayer leading into Pentecost, naming the specific fears and lies beneath our patterns and bringing them before Christ. Key Topics: * Why decades of funding and awareness haven't moved mental health in the right direction * Why the absence of symptoms is not the same thing as health * What Catholic anthropology offers that the mental health industry doesn't have * Why the Church has been slow to speak into mental suffering — and what that silence has cost * How a litany does something that silence and symptom-management can't * What it looks like to bring anxiety, depression, and trauma into Catholic prayer — by name Learn More: * Download the Mental Health Litany and join the Novena: catholicpsych.com/litany * Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier: The book Dr. Greg references that argues our current mental health treatments may be making the problems worse * Start of the Being Human series on the Histrionic Defense Patterns: * Ep. #274: To Be Loved Is to Perform: Inside the Histrionic Compulsion for Attention and Validation * Start of the Being Human series on the Borderline Defense Patterns: * Ep. #269: BORDERLINE: The Push-Pull Between a Fear of Abandonment and Annihilation * Start of the Being Human series on the Dependent Defense Patterns: * Ep. #265: Jerry Maguire, Gollum, and the Fear of Not Existing * Start of the Being Human series on the Narcissistic Defense Patterns: * Ep. #261: Narcissism and the Terror of Being Ordinary * Need help? Schedule a free CatholicPsych consultation * Want to help? Learn more about our Certification in Professional Accompaniment Follow Us on Socials: Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter (X) | LinkedIn