An Inconvenient Truth about the Mental Health Crisis: Obesity!

It may be boring, but the threat is to our metabolic health.

Mental health. It’s really important. What is it, specifically, one might ask? Important. That’s a good answer. I’ve been hearing this for years. Every time there’s an article in the New York Times, which is like multiple times a day at this point, many people send it to me. Yes. I already saw that thing in the Times.

It’s time to warn the the world about the metabolic consequences of psychiatric treatment that could possibly be avoided with more appropriate management.

Everybody¹ agrees: the mental health crisis is crisis-tastic. It is super crisis-y. It’s here. No one’s denying the hereness of the crisis. But most people probably couldn’t pick it out of a lineup. I can. It looks horrifying. I’ll show you: