As much as we all might wish that mental health problems simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others face addiction to alcohol and other drugs, as overdose and suicide deaths abound. Yet the vast majority of doctors receive minimal instruction in treating these conditions during their lengthy medical training. This mismatch ignores the clear overlap between physical and mental distress, and too-often puts mental health clinicians on the outside looking in as the medical system continues to fail many patients. Dr. Damon Tweedy, psychiatrist, medical school professor, and author, blends personal narrative with his academic framework to argue for a more comprehensive and integrated approach to medical care, one where people with mental illness have access to a health care system that places their full well-being front and center.