{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Men Talking Mindfulness: Mental, Physical, & Emotional Fitness to Elevate Performance and Resilience for Leaders and Teams Under Pressure!","title":"Why Asking for Help Early Is the Whole Game — Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, ER Psychiatrist","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3850,"description":"\nThe crisis almost never arrives all at once. It builds — quietly, gradually — and then one day, people break.\n\nDr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey has stood in two of the most extreme places a human can be. As an emergency psychiatrist in New York City, she sits with people at the absolute edge of crisis. Off the clock, she looks for her own edge on the sides of mountains —. A physician-scientist trained at Oxford and Columbia with a PhD in HIV immunology, an award-winning author, and a national mental health policy voice, she joins Jon and Will to talk about what actually brings people into the ER, why economic stress is now hitting the middle class and young adults, and the single lesson the mountains taught her that changes everything: ask for help early.\n\nIN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:\nWhat gets in the way when we need to ask for help?   \nThe most common crises that bring people to the psychiatric ER — and how the demographics are shifting\nWhy economic stress is now breaking middle-class professionals and young adults who can’t find work\nCrises build gradually, then people break — and why to call 988 and ask for help early\nWhat mountaineering taught her about asking for help: inexperience delays it, and delay costs the whole team\nPut your own mask on first, ask the right person, and keep the ask time-limited\nMore about Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey:\n1.  Instagram & Youtube: doctoradjoa\n2.  Children’s book: Anjali the Brave (All About Vaccines) — on Amazon\n3.  New York Mental Health Foundation — launching soon \n4.  New York County Psychiatric Society (branch of the American Psychiatric Association) — Dr. Smalls-Mantey is immediate past president\n5.  If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8dlNQ3XAGyMZvzf_hsRKLoj7CY2F7MHWIEuiq4vDfzk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lODQ4/YTUzNGQ5NWEzNWU5/MTcxOWVkYmQwNTI3/MWMyMi5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}