Celeste Merrill: Mental Health Isn't a Crisis to Manage. It's a Skill to Build

What does it take to recognize you need help and finally ask for it? In this episode of Mental Health Momentum, Dr. David Morgan, a licensed psychologist and host, sits down with Celeste Merrill, a human-centered strategist and mental health advocate, to talk about her own journey through crisis and recovery in her 30s.Celeste opens up about growing up in a family and era that didn't talk about mental health, missing the signs in herself for years, and the pivotal moment a trained-therapist friend intervened. From there, the conversation expands into something bigger: why our culture still treats mental health like a problem to fix rather than a foundation to build and what it would look like to change that.Dr. Morgan shares his own reflections as a psychologist trained in the "deficit model," and together they explore the gap between crisis intervention and genuine mental wellness and the peer-to-peer support systems that might help bridge it.Mental health conversations change lives — this one is proof.