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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unbreakable, a mental health podcast. It's Jay

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Speaker 1: g Lazer. Today's Monday motivation And if you're like many people,

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Speaker 1: you may be surprised to learn that one in five

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Speaker 1: adults in this country experience mental illness last year. I

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Speaker 1: am definitely one of those five, Yet far too many

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Speaker 1: fail to receive the support they need. Carolyn, behavioral health

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Speaker 1: is doing something about it. They understand that behavioral health

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Speaker 1: is a key part of hold health, delivering compassionate careror

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Speaker 1: that treats physical, mental, emotional, and social needs in tandem.

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Speaker 1: Carol in behavioral health raising the quality of life through

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Speaker 1: empathy and action. All right, today's a simple message. Don't

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Speaker 1: try and figure life out. It'll try to crazy. Pretty simple,

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Speaker 1: and too many of us do. And look, I don't

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Speaker 1: know why good things happen to bad people and why

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Speaker 1: bad things tapping to good people. But I realize I'll

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Speaker 1: never know the answer. Once I stop trying to figure

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Speaker 1: that answer out. I've stopped pounding my head against the wall.

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Speaker 1: And listen, good things do happen to good people and

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Speaker 1: bathroom dropping to bad people. But the opposite sometimes just

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Speaker 1: seems a little bit louder. But when things happen to me.

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Speaker 1: I don't try and figure out the why why did

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Speaker 1: this happen to me in life and act like something

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Speaker 1: is against me, some magical force is against me. Too.

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Speaker 1: Many of us that go through mental health struggles think

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Speaker 1: that we are victims by Yeah, something's against me. This

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Speaker 1: happened because I did this wrong. I'm getting punished for this. No,

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Speaker 1: and listen, life on earth. It ain't heaven on earth.

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Speaker 1: It's life on earth. If it was perfect, it would

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Speaker 1: be evan things has got to be a greater place

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Speaker 1: for us to aspire to than this. So I think

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Speaker 1: we're given tests here how to act in a certain way.

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Speaker 1: But I started training myself years ago to not try

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Speaker 1: to figure your life out because all it's going to

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Speaker 1: do is get me bang my head against the wall

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Speaker 1: looking for answers. This answered will never come. All I

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Speaker 1: can try and do is be a service, be a

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Speaker 1: better person, and know that what I'm doing is lending

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Speaker 1: a better place to life. Thanks Dan, Let's keep walking

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Speaker 1: this walk together.