De-Stigmatizing ANXIETY & DEPRESSION in the Jewish community (Full, unedited event)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good evening thank you so much for joining us tonight my name is Jessica tore and I am the founder of catch catch stands for creating a team of courage and hope and offers inperson clinician facilitated support groups for individuals struggling with anxiety and depression before I begin I'd like to welcome my mother who came all the way from New Hampshire to join us tonight I'd like to share with you something I read in a book called furiously happy there's something about depression that allows you to explore depths of emotion that most normal people could never conceive of imagine having a disease so overwhelming that your mind causes you to want to murder yourself imagine having a malignant disorder that no one understands imagine having having a dangerous Affliction that even you a dangerous Affliction that even you can't control or suppress then imagine that same often fatal disease being one of the most misunderstood disorders one that so few want to talk about and one that so many of us can never completely escape from when cancer sufferers fight recover and go into remission we LOD their bravery we wear ribbons to celebrate their fight we call them survivors because they are when depression because they are when depression sufferers fight recover and go into remission we seldom even know simply because so many suffer in the dark ashamed to admit something they see as a personal weakness afraid that people will worry and more afraid that they won't we find ourselves unable to do anything but cling to the couch and force ourselves to breathe when you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief but not one you feel allowed to

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1. 0:01good evening thank you so much for joining us tonight my name is Jessica tore and…
2. 6:11up even when you cannot control the outcome and I was willing to take that risk…
3. 12:40starts this this sort of brakes system right where we have an internal sense of putting…
4. 18:53idea is that you know um children and teenagers are fairly self-centered for good or For…
5. 25:09together in a safe place where everybody can sort of take down their facade and their…
6. 31:42and again if you want to be part of this work I mean by being here…
7. 37:58Jewish people were sent here on a on a mission we have a job and uh…
8. 44:10parent their children from an exile Paradigm and the first time where parents will parent their…
9. 50:21tonight one of the Cycles or the cycle that I'm really focused on is the cycle…
10. 56:33chabas without shame that would have been Messiah it would have been the Perfection of the…

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