Dealing With Mental Illness - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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understanding of the Dynamics even people who are close to us people who love us and like us family friends unless they're educated or they have had unfortunately personal experience with mental illness they simply don't understand they also don't understand the depth of the pain and suffering and Agony that people struggling with mental illness endure I remember a student of mine once approached me he came to see me in my home very successful person I still remember like doing well ambitious smart uh deep person and just just an overall successful person affluent did well for himself but suffered from serious depression and lived an unbelievably lives an unbelievably dis disciplined life in terms of exercise and waking up and routine and habits and going to the gym and going for therapy and taking whatever he has to take whether vitamins or medications in order to to contain it but he told me once he said nobody will ever imagine the pain just the inner inner pain the void the black hole the emptiness that I experience on a daily basis and it doesn't look like I'm going through anything it's not on the outside he's not emaciated he doesn't have cancer he doesn't have Parkinson he doesn't have another terrible illness may God bring a complete and speedy recovery to everybody it's all internal on the outside he's SM he's smiling but internally there is that pain that

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1. 0:32understanding of the Dynamics even people who are close to us people who love us and…
2. 3:11ignorance to Define to yourself what your role is what you have to do you have…
3. 6:22that if I'm going through something I can't stay till 4:00 in the morning not because…
4. 9:35need another very important idea is relationships the marriages in these situations when there's so much…
5. 12:53learn to say everything has a Heavenly purpose instead of blaming the whole world remember who…
6. 16:11meditation that helps us emancipate ourselves from those um paralyzing paradigms you know I often tell…
7. 19:28description of God which is a God that has no description you say what is the…
8. 22:40passes and we're complacent and GS and we could be complacent with the fact that Mash…
9. 25:58or at least so many families deal with but nobody talks about and so many people…
10. 29:09whether it's border line whether it's various forms of depressions whether it's other dis personality disorders…

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