Gary Direnfeld

And, you know, again, it's built into dialectical behavior therapy.

It's built into cognitive behavior therapy.

We're always trying to manage our behavior.

Your example, again, before the break of being in a somewhat manic state, not clinically manic, but you were excited, you were trying to do a lot, and you were realizing that you could overdo it and a crash would come.

That is mindfulness in action.

That you had the wherewithal to look at your behavior in the moment, live as it was occurring.

You were able to make a reasonable prediction based on your observable behavior so that when that prediction came true, you were no longer overwhelmed by it.

You had a strategy in place.

You went to bed.

So there's a Jewish expression, tsuris mit tsuris.

That means problems on top of... I don't know where all this Jewish is coming from today.

Hey, I'm Gary.

I got surahs mit surahs with the rabbi.

Surahs mit surahs means problems on top of problems.

So some people kind of thought-build.

Oh, my goodness, today's going to be a bad day.

Oh, it's going to be a bad day because this is going to go wrong.

That's surahs mit surahs.

I'm adding problems on top of my problems.

And heck...