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EP: 93 Mental Health around the Holidays? This is not you're average conversation. · Humanity Unplugged Podcast

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on, what's going on people?
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[SPEAKER_00]: How you guys doing, man?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully you guys are having a great, great week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are here, we are here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm so happy to be here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm happy you guys made it in one more time and again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Germaine McCrimon and this is Humanity Unplug Podcast and hopefully you guys are here and join your rest of your week coming off and one of the biggest monumental holidays of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So before we get started, first and foremost, let's give on to the most high who give us the wisdom and knowledge to be here again for more understanding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now first of all, there's one tell all you guys, these are just my opinions, my thoughts, my theory of thought, my perspective on life, on how I see things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, mostly all information I give you is research and double proof before I talk about it, but sometimes I might say things that might offend someone, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do it intentionally, but just give it out information.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I become very passionate about the situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And today's topic, as we go into our 93, 93 episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is our 93 or 93 or any way you want to call it is 93 episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A podcasting and that's a monument to moment for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember many of the times I didn't think I make it to 93.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm here, and all I can say is, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God is still in control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So as we move forward, and we see what's going on with the rest of our 2025, this has been a long year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have talked about many different topics.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes I talk about the same topic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I want to stress to my listeners how important it is to get checked out for certain things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And our past episodes, recent episodes, I talked about children running away from home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also talked about children coming up missing from the home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I proceeded to
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[SPEAKER_00]: dip and dive, going between facts and things that occur or that may occur, coincidentally with both subjects, how they relate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I love doing that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love to blend in things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But also, I want you to understand how important it is to get checked out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's extremely important to get checked out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: During a holiday season, it's a great holiday coming up, new year in Christmas, and people really enjoy being with family members that time, but it's a very depressing moment for a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone don't put a tree up, everyone don't put out Christmas lights and saying Christmas carols, there's many people, many, many, many people out here, and our world that we live in dreads the day of Christmas, whether you like it or not, and today's world on society we live in, Christmas
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[SPEAKER_00]: is for some people, one of the most difficult holidays to do with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we say that and we look into Christmas and we look into what's really going on or what is projected by media or our religious culture or even your true and value beliefs,
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[SPEAKER_00]: For most people who just come with gifts, oftentimes people don't even understand how deep that is, the holiday Christmas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not here to preach to you and get into religious beliefs or push my religious beliefs upon you, but I will tell you that it is a blessing still to be here to see another Christmas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you think about December, somebody didn't make it till December.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody's life ended in November.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody didn't make it till Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for us to have our health and strength, and be able to enjoy somewhat of a day you don't like is still a blessing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we look at Christmas and I tell you that people don't like it, the first thing come to your mind is if you can, it could be why you don't like Christmas, you don't like receiving gifts, you don't like issuing gifts to people, making somebody have a smile or receive a smile on a face just by you handling something in a box, so small as a scarf,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just a gift card to Dunkin' Donut is something to be appreciated for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do agree, but for some people, Christmas and holiday spirits remind people of trauma.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It brings back the childhood of the way things used to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: how cold the winters was back in those good days before those good days turned into bad days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Christmas was a time for some people when families came together and people enjoyed each other
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[SPEAKER_00]: But over time in the economy and our community and people in charge and death, and I'll say it again, death, loved ones lost, people have gone on home to meet the Lord, death, and missing your loved ones have become a big issue mentally in a lot of people lives, except in death,
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[SPEAKER_00]: around the holidays.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would definitely say it's one of the toughest things for someone to go through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you lose a family member around Christmas time, around Thanksgiving time, around 4 for July time, it is very, very difficult to get past that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oftentimes, it's harder to get past that than losing a loved one any time of the month than losing during a holiday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's twice as hard to get by that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for this time of year, I want to talk to my audience about mental health in the holiday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in the holiday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to understand that those two blending those two can be very tricky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It might come a time when you got to walk away because your emotion of having your loved one receive a gift can be slighted because of the loved one you miss that will never
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[SPEAKER_00]: people go through around the holiday season, often times we don't even celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving if you lost a loved one in the holiday season because it's so rough to go through just like after the first year of that person not being there and you celebrate around that time, what do you expect that individual to do when they lost their loved
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't think it's given time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You really want them to go cook?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want them to prepare a dish?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want them to be around for the loved ones when they're grieving and they're hurting and they're sad?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that maybe their mindset can play a fault
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[SPEAKER_00]: in a occasion of or the holiday occasion, do you think that that might affect other people's mindset doing those holiday season?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it wise for them to even be on the highway to travel to go somewhere knowing they're grieving, they're hurting, they lost a loved one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is just
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[SPEAKER_00]: mental health in the holiday season, because let's face it, the holiday season cost you money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can't make money unless you have a job, you can't make money unless you have
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[SPEAKER_00]: But now, we understand things are rough for now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We understand that tariffs have raised prices on food and traveling expenses and just breathe and cost you more money than anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just you take a deep breath, my cost you $20.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know, it's a joke, you joke, but it's real.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why I tell you that is because how can you have a great Thanksgiving or have a mindset of giving thanks when you struggle and to provide?
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you're check, don't carry no real weight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of your bills is a third of your check.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you skip your bills that might?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did they put the turkey on the table?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you skip paying rent?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because your kid want that P5 for Christmas?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You decide, I can't tell you what to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you need to understand that even having a job don't guarantee your bills being paid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even having a job don't guarantee you having a happy Thanksgiving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't guarantee your son will get the P5 that he desperately deserves but because of where you work and because of your environment because of your community because of what you're going through at this particular time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You cannot provide what you wanna provide for your child.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what that calls is?
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[SPEAKER_00]: stress, depression.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It makes you want to crawl into a corner and give up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when we look at some of the factors in mental health, the holidays just ain't the holidays for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanksgiving ain't always something you want to give thanks for, and some people eyes because it calls great pain, grief, darkness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What can we do if you face this in your life?
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[SPEAKER_00]: How can you handle the pain, the darkness?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Receiving your check and it holds no weight and make you want to go out there and do some stupid I've been there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've had to feel it Not having your loved ones around Can really really get you rough around the edges
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[SPEAKER_00]: your parents or your sibling or whoever you're missing, who was a factor in your life, can really change who you are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to understand that this pain that you have never really goes away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The darkness that you feel never really get a light shined on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there are certain days where it's not as dark as it used to be, but you still feel it sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You still go through it sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You still demonstrate it sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not want to be bothered with people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Staying in your corner in your full walls where it's safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the only place you can be seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause sometimes when you go out there in the world and you put on a smile and you put on that happy face and you walk in there and you're just jolly just happy to be here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what your coworker say?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm wrong with him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he just too dog on happy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why he got that smirk on his face like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: what he's so happy about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He the last one and he don't get paid what we get paid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is he so smiling and so jipper and always singing and why he always smelling good and why he always pulling up early for working why he always got his food and he don't ever hang out with us why he don't sit down in the office with us why he don't eat lunch with us?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's because sometimes,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your happiness is offensive, and it shouldn't be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody goes through darkness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you upset that he's happy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't that sounds a little disturbing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please advise you just take a minute and think about what I just said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Could this happens every day at people jobs?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know if you go to your job too happy, they might call you in the office?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She used me to just have a drink a little coffee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know if you drink too much coffee around your coworkers, they think something wrong with you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other than you like coffee,
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you come all the time to work every day, they think something wrong with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other than you like to be prompt for work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Depression, others people darkness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They try to input their darkness on you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their sadness on you, their confliction on you, their trouble on you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It happens all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People hate what they don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cloth is different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I might be in my darkness, but God still give me some peace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He still covers me in my darkness, I'm still all right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing wrong with being by yourself a little time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can't sit at home by yourself and enjoy the peacefulness of being within self, you might need to get checked out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because there's nothing wrong with being by yourself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing wrong with finding that peaceful spot within self.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and sit there and tell God, or just say, thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because what I want you to understand through this darkness, through this mental depression, through the holidays, is a couple of things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One, it can always get better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But because as long as there's somebody upstairs as looking down on us, when he's ready to take you out of it, just like that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can get out of trouble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The flip side to that is it can always get worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's someone worse than you out here that's struggling on a whole level level than you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying, even in your darkest times,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And your brain might not be working the way you wanted to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could get worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's something within that to be thankful for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I tell you to be thankful because sometimes we don't have a support team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's so bad at home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All you could do is just get up, get dressed, and go to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully when you get there, that one person that takes you off won't say nothing to you and your day will be fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if that just can happen alone, it was better than yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I act you in this mental health holiday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanksgiving was tough for those of you that may I lost your parents or a parent or a loved one or Thanksgiving could have been a day where you had a tragic accident and you may not have lost a limb or you may not be the same because of that day that tragic event that may have happened to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry and I hope that God can heal you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the way he can to give you a speedy recovery to the best life you can live.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But until that happens, you have to keep moving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no time, like the time of present, to keep moving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to keep moving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just put one foot in front of the other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay if the ground may seem shaky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just understand when you make one step, gotta make two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We walk my faith.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very depressing when you wanna give your child the best, but all you have is nickels and pennies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not fed at him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You ask them to understand why they listen to you and still don't get what they should have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let that sit in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You want a child to listen to you, to be good in school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The do what you're supposed to do, be obedient home, and you have problems in the world, but yet they get nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you want them to understand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How?
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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you want their emotions to go?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you really want them to do after hearing that over and over and over and over again?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna start looking at you and saying, Miami and Daddy, line.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No matter how good I do in school and how I behave at home, I will never receive some of the things I ask for because they don't have it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So then why should I keep up the good school work?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why should I listen at home and be obedient to my parents?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oftentimes we look at things because we try to have the understanding as adult but you need to have the education and wisdom and understanding of the little child that you're trying to reach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This levels in between you two and you cannot keep talking to that child like you talking to a adult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't keep walking at that child to try to make them understand on an adult level.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry it doesn't work like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That child has a mental capacity of a child and they don't understand the same things you understand as an adult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mental health.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Holidays.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mother and child.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Father and son.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a gap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have to find a way to communicate better, point blank period.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Communicating takes one person talking and one person listening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both we all can't talk at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because both of you guys are talking, can't nobody listen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fact.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And both of you are yelling, who's listening?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And both of you are talking, who's listening?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And both of you are not talking, no communication.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The child has to know, and that example, the parent, and the child needs to know who's a child.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It respect fact that got to be there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you got to be able to communicate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't just tell your people, your child, if you have an issue with, I'm your mother, you do what I tell you to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those 1974 tactics don't get you nowhere now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I act you as we close part one of this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And as I talk about different examples within this, mental health in the holiday season,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not what it's cut up to be for some people, some people just don't like the holiday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because of all the pain you may have caused them, I want you to understand
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not easy for some people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have some compassion, have some empathy, have some love in your heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have some patience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God bless people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Talk to you later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see you on third on our Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace.