Dr. Matt Zakreski
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438 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2021
last heard Nov 2021
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Right.
If a if a bear burst into your living room right now, Debbie, you would freak out and you would do something about it.
Our brains are not very good at dealing with diffuse horror.
Right, and a pand what's more diffuse than a invisible pandemic.
So, I mean it's it's been tough and
You know, the nice thing I guess about how I practice is I don't pretend to have all the answers, right?
I don't think that would be fair, it would be disingenuous of me.
So if nothing else, we have an hour a week to sit in a shared experience and say, This is hard and we may not have the answers, but we can at least sit together with this and say it's hard together.
One of the things that a lot of cases of suicide end up sort of boiling down to is ruptured connection.
Right.
So I had a job that I loved and I was fired from that job.
I was in a relationship that I loved and that relationship was taken from me.
I got to go to a school that I loved and I had friends.
And when we think about ourselves as social creatures,
you know, it makes us more vulnerable to ruptured connection.
It becomes a
an idea of trying to seek out those connections in ways that feel helpful and supportive.
And and when we're all so busy and we're also overwhelmed, it's easy to just say to to anybody, right?
That kids included, you gotta deal with it.
You gotta get over it.
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