Mental Health - Where We Stand
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on mental health. This is one of three shows that we have with our great guests. I'll introduce them in a minute. Today's show is where we stand on the issue of mental health. And boy, oh boy, there are a lot of variables related to mental health for sure. So what we want to do is first of all, thank all the people that are involved with Health Chatter, Manny Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Sheridan Nygaard, do all our great background research for us and give Clarence and I some good talking points to discuss with our guests. And if we do it by ourselves, even they give us some good talking points as well. Then in addition,
We have Matthew Campbell, who's our production manager, who's second to none. He does all the logistics behind the shows, keeps everything going technically. Then we have Human Partnership, which is our community sponsor. That is a great, great organization. I recommend our listening audience. Check them out. You can go to our website. healthchatterpodcast.com, and also link to their website and see all the great things they do in the community to address health issues, frankly, for all of us. And then, of course, there's Clarence Jones, my great colleague and partner in crime as it relates to health chatter. We've been chatting a lot about a variety of different health issues. This is, I think, our 55th show, Mike.
So it's been going for a while. It's a great, great podcast, and it's great having Clarence as a colleague. So today we're going to be looking at the state of the art in mental health, and I've got a great guest for us today, Mike Trangle, Dr. Mike Trangle. He and I go back a long, long way. We were in high school together. We were on a tennis team together. And our professional lives kind of went in different directions. But we always knew kind of where each other was in the environment here. We could always connect.
Isn't there a song like that, You Are Always On My Mind? You Are Always On My Mind, exactly.
And anyway, Mike has got a great illustrious background in the area of mental health. And he really is a gem for those of us in the state of Minnesota that can rely on his expertise and his insights. He's been involved in a variety of different mental health oriented issues, including eating disorders, chemical dependency, crisis stabilization for adolescents. Most recently, he was at Health Partners, heading up their psychiatric initiatives there. And most recently, he's a distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, immediate past president of the Minnesota Psychiatric Society. He's on the National Quality Forum Standing Behavioral Health Measurement Committee and participate in our governor in the state of Minnesota, his advisory council on mental health. and also a task force on competency restoration. So he's got it. He's got it in his head on where we stand with mental health.
And we'll also be having Mike on in a couple of other shows down the pike on looking at mental health as it relates to particular population groups and age groups, and then also a following show on policy implications, what we can do from a policy perspective in order to change these things. So, Mike, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being with us today. It's a pleasure. It's great seeing you as well. So let me kick this off. I'm going to ask this, maybe it seems like a simple question, but it probably has a longer answer. What, Mike, what have you seen? I mean, you've been in this arena for a long time now. So what have you really seen in the area of mental health over the years? I mean, there's got to be some torches that we all should be carrying, things that have changed, things that have gotten better, things that have gotten worse. What's your perspective on it?
My perspective is a little bit twofold or color. Yeah. When anyone starts their chronic career, and I started as a clinician, through psychiatric residency, seeing patients, both adolescents and adults, and doing a combination of inpatient and outpatient work, and then adding substance use disorder work.
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