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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.66,0:00:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So efficient and hushed are\Nour brains in their day to day operations,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.49,0:00:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are apt to miss
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.74,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what an extraordinary\Nand complicated achievement it is
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to feel mentally well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.10,0:00:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A mind in a healthy state is,\Nin the background,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.05,0:00:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continually performing \Na near-miraculous set of manoeuvres
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.10,0:00:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that underpin our moods \Nof clear-sightedness and purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.87,0:00:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To appreciate what mental health might be,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.60,0:00:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore what its opposite involves,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.94,0:00:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we might take a moment to consider
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.63,0:00:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of what will be going on in the folds\Nof an optimally-functioning mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.70,0:00:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First and foremost,\Na healthy mind is an editing mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.75,0:00:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an organ that manages to sieve
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.73,0:00:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from thousands of stray, dramatic, \Ndisconcerting, or horrifying thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.88,0:00:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those particular ideas and sensations\Nthat actively need to be entertained
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.36,0:00:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order for us to direct\Nour lives effectively.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.35,0:01:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Partly, this means keeping at bay\Npunitive and critical judgements
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.66,0:01:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might want to tell us repeatedly\Nhow disgraceful and appalling we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.09,0:01:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,long after harshness has ceased \Nto serve any useful purpose.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.97,0:01:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we are interviewing for a new job\Nor taking someone on a date,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.66,0:01:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a healthy mind doesn’t force us\Nto listen to inner voices
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.98,0:01:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that insist on our unworthiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.34,0:01:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It allows us to talk to ourselves \Nas we would to a friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.66,0:01:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, a healthy mind \Nresists the pull of unfair comparisons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.96,0:01:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t constantly allow
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.46,0:01:33.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the achievements and successes\Nof others to throw us off course,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.75,0:01:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reduce us to a state\Nof bitter inadequacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.89,0:01:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t torture us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.20,0:01:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by continually comparing \Nour condition to that of people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.09,0:01:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have, in reality, had very different\Nupbringings and trajectories through life,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.47,0:01:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A well-functioning mind
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.08,0:01:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognizes the futility and cruelty \Nof constantly finding fault
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.62,0:01:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with its own nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.10,0:01:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the way, a healthy mind keeps \Na judicious grip on the faucet of fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.51,0:02:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It knows that, in theory,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.27,0:02:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is an endless number of things\Nthat we could worry about:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.70,0:02:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a blood vessel might fail,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.23,0:02:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a scandal might erupt,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.62,0:02:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the planes' engines could\Nsheer from their wings…
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.40,0:02:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it has a good sense of the distinction
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.46,0:02:15.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between what could conceivably happen
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.94,0:02:18.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is, in fact, likely to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.73,0:02:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is able to leave us in peace
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.98,0:02:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as regards the wilder\Neventualities of fate,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.07,0:02:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confident that awful things \Nwill either not unfold
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.50,0:02:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or could be dealt with ably enough
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.52,0:02:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if ever they did so.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.64,0:02:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A healthy mind avoids \Ncatastrophic imaginings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.84,0:02:38.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It knows that there are\Nbroad and stable stone steps -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.25,0:02:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a steep and slippery incline -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.39,0:02:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between itself and disaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.68,0:02:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A healthy mind has compartments\Nwith heavy doors that shut securely.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.76,0:02:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can compartmentalise\Nwhere it needs to -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.33,0:02:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not all thoughts belong at all moments.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.26,0:02:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While talking to a grandmother,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.15,0:03:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mind prevents the emergence of\Nimages of last night's erotic fantasies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.80,0:03:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While looking after a child,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.34,0:03:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can repress its more cynical\Nand misanthropic insights.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.89,0:03:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aberrant thoughts\Nabout jumping on a train line
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.55,0:03:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or harming oneself with a sharp knife
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.64,0:03:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can remain brief peculiar flashes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.23,0:03:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than repetitive fixations.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.88,0:03:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A healthy mind has mastered \Nthe techniques of censorship.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.52,0:03:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A healthy mind can quieten \Nits own buzzing preoccupations
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.41,0:03:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order, at times,\Nto focus on the world beyond itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.54,0:03:32.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be present and engaged\Nwith what and who is immediately around.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.68,0:03:36.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everything it could feel\Nhas to be felt at every moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.01,0:03:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be a good listener.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.67,0:03:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A healthy mind combines\Nan appropriate suspicion of certain people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.98,0:03:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a fundamental trust in humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.88,0:03:49.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can take\Nan intelligent risk with a stranger.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.73,0:03:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t extrapolate\Nfrom life’s worst moments
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.61,0:03:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to destroy the possibility\Nof anything good emerging
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.83,0:03:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a new acquaintance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.84,0:04:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A healthy mind knows how to hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.18,0:04:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It identifies,\Nand then hangs on tenaciously
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.14,0:04:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a few reasons to keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.20,0:04:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grounds for despair, anger\Nand sadness are, of course, all around.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.80,0:04:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the healthy mind knows
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to bracket negativity \Nin the name of endurance.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.04,0:04:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It clings to evidence\Nof what is still beautiful and kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.92,0:04:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It remembers to appreciate.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.77,0:04:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can, despite everything, \Nstill look forward to a hot bath,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.04,0:04:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some dried fruit, or dark chocolate,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.29,0:04:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chat with a friend,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.83,0:04:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a satisfying day of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.97,0:04:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It refuses to let itself be silenced
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.60,0:04:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by all the many sensible arguments
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.78,0:04:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in favor of rage and despondency.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.85,0:04:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outlining some of the features\Nof a healthy mind
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.74,0:04:46.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helps us to identify what can go awry
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.37,0:04:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we fall ill.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.18,0:04:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should acknowledge the extent
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.19,0:04:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to which mental illness is ultimately\Nas common and as essentially unshameful,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.24,0:04:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as its bodily counterpart.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.20,0:04:58.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True mental health
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.69,0:05:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involves a frank acceptance of\Nhow much ill health there will have to be
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.59,0:05:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in even the most ostensibly \Ncompetent and meaningful life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.94,0:05:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we should be\Nno more reluctant to seek help
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.59,0:05:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than we are when we develop \Na chest infection or a sore knee,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.14,0:05:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and should consider ourselves \Nno less worthy of love and sympathy.
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Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.50,0:05:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Subtitles by Carol Wang