How similar are mental and physical health?

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Mithi, Co-Founder & COO

over 6 months ago

How similar are mental and physical health?

If you look at every field in medicine, there is an early detection tool to be able to identify very early on a particular disease. This is very true for oncology, but it's also true for what we call lifetime related diseases, such as diabetes, whereby a patient would go through a blood test and that blood test might tell them that they are prediabetic. That level of awareness is what a patient needs to be able to start their journey towards better health. Now, when it comes to mental health, there is [currently] no such thing as an early detection tool to be able to prevent the onset of precondition such as burnout and chronic stress, which then lead on to clinical conditions such as clinical anxiety and clinical depression. So although you have a lot of solutions from meditation to therapy, unless people have that level of awareness, they will not make the change.