Ep. 67: #DrFumiHancock talks about #Loneliness and Isolation Hurting Kids, Teenagers and Adults in #America and #Nigeria

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Dr. Princess Fumi Hancock addresses the growing issue of loneliness and isolation in today's society, like the United States and Nigeria, as she watched the news and listened to US Surgeon Dr. Vivek Murphy. She shares her insights on the detrimental effects of social disconnection and highlights its impact on mental health. Through personal anecdotes and professional expertise, Dr. Hancock sheds light on the alarming rise of suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, and other negative consequences of loneliness. She urges parents and adults to take responsibility for combating this pervasive problem by actively engaging with their children and loved ones, promoting open communication, and creating a nurturing environment at home. Dr. Hancock also encourages viewers to reflect on the influence of social media and the need to strike a balance in its usage. By reclaiming the essence of community, fostering genuine connections, and prioritizing mental well-being, we can empower ourselves and future generations to overcome the challenges of loneliness and isolation.


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Episode Transcript

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Life Ambassador, best selling author,ted X talk speaker, CEO of Pull
of the Festa Psychiatric Health in Arizona. Let's all welcome Doctor Princess Fumy Hancock.
Hello everyone, thank you so muchfor joining me. Of course,
my name is Goto, Princess FumyHancock. I'm a psychiatric provider in Arizona,

(00:46):
the doctor of Nose Practice. Ofcourse, people call me your compassionate
trauma care Maestro Audis, the Princessof Sobovia. Welcome to my channel.
If you are watching these YouTube Iwelcome you this like subscribe, may comments,
and if you're listening through my podcast, Javel will welcome about this show

(01:10):
so um Today I wanted to talkto you about something that it's very very
important. I was watching the newstoday and I happened to listen to the
US Surgeon General I think his nameis Murphy, and he brought up a
very very important topic which is inthe area of loneliness and isolation. Right,

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This is a topic that is justseasoned. It is seasoned because as
a psychiatric doctorns practice in Arizona.I told you before that I see patients
from ages four on accoll across lifespecand one of the things that's very significant

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that I see that I experience oftenis the loneliness and isolation. Do you
know that loneliness and isolation can actuallykill? Right, because we're coming out
of pandemic. They also have todo with my my family, my people
in Nigeria, because some of youknow that I own two countries, right,

(02:25):
America and Nigeria. And this topicis also very significant in Nigeria because
Gona the days, in the olddays where in Nigeria we had story time,
people sat around, people sat around, there was community around you.
If you did something wrong in school, you'll be scared to even go home

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because by the time you get home, you know all the neighbors in between
your school and the home that willwhoop your behind before you get home.
And then by the time you gethome and talk to your mother or your
dada body where guess when you getanother whoopant. So this was community.
But now in these days of technology, we have many people, many many

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kids, teenagers, even adults thatare staying by themselves into their room.
A lot of the patients that Isee a lot of my kid teenagers is
really just hurt me because many ofthem, when I see them, they
tell me they are mostly in theirroom. Some of them will stay in
their room for days, and theirparents, who was busy working doing all

(03:35):
kind of stuff, there are timesin two days they won't even go into
the room to see how they're doing. They won't even check. Now some
parents will try and then their kidswill try to kick them out, so
that we're now having situations where familyis now sitting around the table to even
talk to each other to find outhow each other are doing. Everybody.

(03:58):
You can have six bedroom house andevery child would be in their own separate
room, either get own games,either interactive on Facebook, I mean all
kinds of stuff, but sitting aroundthe table to actually communicate with each other.
So loneliness and isolation has become ahuge part of our system in not

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only in America, also in Europeand of course in Africa for that matter.
So what do we do? Whathappens when people are experiencing loneliness?
And now things happen? A lotof bad things happen with loneliness. One
of their is societalization. I'm surethat many of us have heard consistently about

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people that are going through societal addition, teenagers, kids as as early as
four years old going through societal thoughts, societal ization. Some would tell me
in practice that they would just beoutside of their home and something will just
tell them, I wonder what wouldhappen if I just throw myself in front

(05:05):
of the car, You know,those kinds of things. Some as even
gone as far as even attempting thereas suicide. Now, thank heavens,
some did not complete it, butthat of course they have others that I've
actually completed it. When you lookat America and even look outside of America,
the number of people that have actuallycompleted suicide is quite incredible and it

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is growing. At least one infour women. Wondering for Women said that
again, Wondering for Women would havesaid that they've tried to do something now
with our children. Oh my god, the statistics are just staggering, and
so now it's time for us tostart having conversations about that. Many of

(05:53):
us are lonely, many of usare isolated. Right, parents are no
longer paying too much as much parentsnot all parents, and are paying as
much attention to their kids, notunderstanding what their kids are doing. Right,
they just know that their kids intothe bedroom, and that's fine with
them because, after all, youknow, they get a chance to rescue

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themselves. We have single mothers thatdon't know where the next meal will come
from, and of course they're lonelytoo because they're dooking all this fount by
themselves. What happens when isolation andloneliness comes in Number one, Depression sets
in, Anxiety, sensing, panicdisorders set in, social phobias set in.

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Even drop use. Those who arenot prone to using drop before all
of a sudden, they start witha little one, a little we there,
a little wit there, and beforeyou know it, it escalates.
Those kind of things. Behaviors cancome out of being isolated. When you
are isolated, all you hear isyourself. You're not hearing other people's perspective

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to anything. You're sitting there andimagining all kinds of stuff by yourself.
You're telling yourself things that may betrue or might not be true. You
are in fear. You're living perpetualfear of what's out there. You don't
know what the next step is.You are just simply by yourself, and

(07:30):
so when people talk to you aboutthe realities of life, you probably can
take it because now you've been inyour own head for too long. So
how do we begin to work andcombat this? Because frankly, we need
to deal with it. What amI saying? We as parents have to

(07:51):
deal with it with our kids,no matter what the ages are. We
as adults have to deal with isolationbecause frankly, I have a lot of
my veterans that just stay in theirown room too. They are afraid to
go out because of social anxiety.They don't want to deal with too many

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things that are there. So howdo we begin to look at this.
One of the things that we havereally really lost is that that, um
what do you call it? Theknowledge of community? Right? When we
have community, we have people thatcare for one another, we have people

(08:35):
that that um that look after eachother. Right in those days, if
you don't hear from a friend,or if you don't hear from a sister,
you're putting, you're pointing their phoneto say, hey sis, hey
bro, are you okay this timearound? You might not hear from friends

(08:56):
for four months and you're saying you'refriends. Right. I'm even guilty of
that most times because and my excuses, I'm very busy, But it's something
that I recently have started thinking aboutthat life is too short. We need
to start reaching out to one anotherwell ready to start finding trying to figure
out how each other are doing.We don't have to toss one out to

(09:22):
bring one back and bring one in. The more people you have in your
sphere of influence right in your orbit, the better to get. And so
it's important for us to die.If there's a friend, if as a
brother, if there's somebody else thatis you know that's been on your mind,
to reach out to reach out tothem. Community is pivotal. Then

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the second thing we have to lookat is the role and the impact of
social media. My goodness, evenI myself as a psychiatric provider, I
can't take it. Sometimes I haveto go on this social platform and just
shut it down when I start,you know, start reading some things that
jazz robs me in the wrong way. There are times there are some news

(10:09):
medias that I once I click infive minutes too long one second, I
have to get out of there ifI really need my brain for that day.
So that in those days, weused to have shows where you worked
out all day, you come back, you can sit around the table,
you can eat dinner, and thenyou and your family can sit back and

(10:31):
watch a comedy. That is everybodyin the family can watch at the same
time, right, and you don'thave to throw anybody out of the house
or out of the apartment to watchit or out of the room to watch
it. Why can't we go backto that now? I do understand the
impact of our leaders here, right, we're talking about Congress setting the rules

(10:56):
for social media, Congress in themedia, to do that, to do
this, to do all that.But here is my prospective. What is
the role of our parents, Becauseafter all, Congress was not in that
bedroom when you made that baby.Yes you wrap me. Congress was not

(11:16):
in that bedroom when you made thatbaby. And now that we're having situations
where freedom is being tossed in andout of something that we're telling our government
keep your nose out of our bedrooms? Well, can we say this too,
that it's important in combat about usas parents that we need to take

(11:39):
the brunt of the role. Wecannot wait for Congress and a Senate to
pass the rules on how you tackleloneliness and isolation in your home. You
cannot wait for Congress, even thoughit is good to come up with plans

(12:03):
on how to stop social media platformsfrom corrupting our children. That's right,
you, you, you, myself. We have a role, and our
role is the biggest role of all. Because frankly, when I see the
number of the the the what areyou going to? The patience that I

(12:28):
see, right, there's so muchlike to my in my face today this
morning when I see the number ofmy teenagers, and every time I see
them, where's this person? Ohat work, where's that person? Or
it is not here? Um,this is not about Congress. This is
about parents taking care of what needsto be done, regardless of what Working

(12:52):
hard is one part of taking careof our family. Right, we all
agree to that, but the otherpart of it is so taking time to
know what your what your children aredoing in their rooms. And of course
if you are an adult who isgoing through depression and anxiety, then it's
a you have family, it's aconduct appoint you to seek help so that

(13:18):
you can help your family too.And so when I talk about isolation and
just being by ourselves and loneliness,it is time that we need to reach
out, start to reach out toother people. Let's go back to that
that that time where family matters,where people can come together and just have

(13:46):
a blast, where neighbors can bringthings to the front like a basket of
heart bonds, and y'all can sitaround the pool or sit around anywhere and
just have fun, simple fun,where neighbors can become friends, where our
kids and the neighbors can reach outour evil lookout for one another. I

(14:09):
know that it's hard to think inthese days where people have you know,
have guns and all kinds of stuff, but it is incompetent upon us to
push for that. So loneliness,isolation is linked to depression, is late
to anxiety, is lated to Imean you can imagine suicide or thought suicide

(14:35):
completion right, but we can dosomething about it as a nation, not
just as living depending on our leaders, but as nations has parents, has
family members, we can do somethingabout our own family. We don't have

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to wait for Congress, either inNigeria or in America to do anything to
make any rules, because frankly,they can make all the rules they want
if you, as a mother oras a father, is now paying attention
to your ch out. Rules areyour rules. So until next time America,

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until next time Nigeria, until nexttime Europe, onti next time world,
be inspired, be motivated, bersentimental value. No, that's you.
You do. You are a heroin your life story right it brilliantly.
Don't allow anybody to rewrite your storyuntil next time. Bye for now,
Thank you for listening to Tear theVeil with Doctor Filmy. We hope

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