#60 – A Pandemic of Mental Illness with Dr. Steve Arkin

Episode #60 of GKO reunites our mental health warriors and advocates. as Dr. Steve Arkin, co-founder of SpeakUp.us, rejoins the quality podcast with Da Coach.

 

The show commences with Glenn rehearsing how he and Dr. Steve met, how he was healed from mental illness, the hiccup in their relationship, and why if the two of them would have been in charge of COVID policy together things could have gone much differently. Then Glenn and Steve discuss their shared love of sports, the upcoming Super Bowl, married doctor couples like Karen and Steve, why Glenn likes his own posts on Facebook, how the Arkins turned tragedy into triumph, de-stigmatizing the whole issuer of mental illness, changing the why we think and talk about it, preventing suicide, how Steve changed Glenn's life, why we are now in what Steve termed “a pandemic of mental illness”, plus so much more! It ain’t going to be boring. The potentially life-changing closing theme “We are Love” by Angel Gabriel closes out on helluva podcast!