Newsweek's Foreign Service

Elizabeth Cotton and Doug Segal join Mirren Gidda and Josh Lowe to discuss how governments across the world should be treating mental health. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is turning mental health into a core part of her campaign platform. She wants, she says, those who have a mental illness to get the same standard of treatment as those who have a physical one. But nice as it sounds, how can they actually make it happen? And beyond the politicians, when many ordinary people remain confused about mental health, or feel unable to discuss their own problems, what cultural change is needed to get to the goal? Doug Segal is a stand-up comedian who talks about mental health, and Elizabeth Cotton is a writer and educator in the field of mental health who runs the organization Surviving Work. Newsweek's Foreign Service is recorded and edited by Jordan Saville.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.