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Patrick Kennedy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And the happiest I am, Tony, on any given week is when I get a phone call to ask someone who asked me to help A loved one can get insurance because I can get help with their insurance company since that's been my life's work. I know all those folks.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And the happiest I am, Tony, on any given week is when I get a phone call to ask someone who asked me to help A loved one can get insurance because I can get help with their insurance company since that's been my life's work. I know all those folks.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

That's when I'm feeling the best about myself because I'm useful to someone else. And frankly, in recovery, that's the secret sauce to the psychic change that we have to have in order to have long-term sobriety. We have to have a conscious contact. with a higher power, which means we cannot be feeling as if we're controlling everything.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

That's when I'm feeling the best about myself because I'm useful to someone else. And frankly, in recovery, that's the secret sauce to the psychic change that we have to have in order to have long-term sobriety. We have to have a conscious contact. with a higher power, which means we cannot be feeling as if we're controlling everything.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

That's when I'm feeling the best about myself because I'm useful to someone else. And frankly, in recovery, that's the secret sauce to the psychic change that we have to have in order to have long-term sobriety. We have to have a conscious contact. with a higher power, which means we cannot be feeling as if we're controlling everything.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

We have to be just servants to doing the next right thing and helping others who are in need of struggling because that's how we get relief from the burden of our own self-centered, selfish thinking, which creates torture internally in terms of our feeling of worrying about we're going to lose what we have or not get what we want. And I think we as a country need to really embrace that.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

We have to be just servants to doing the next right thing and helping others who are in need of struggling because that's how we get relief from the burden of our own self-centered, selfish thinking, which creates torture internally in terms of our feeling of worrying about we're going to lose what we have or not get what we want. And I think we as a country need to really embrace that.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

We have to be just servants to doing the next right thing and helping others who are in need of struggling because that's how we get relief from the burden of our own self-centered, selfish thinking, which creates torture internally in terms of our feeling of worrying about we're going to lose what we have or not get what we want. And I think we as a country need to really embrace that.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And frankly, it's a very bipartisan and, as I said, spiritual thing. So I'm working with the Catholic Church to try to do some things. And we are now finding synagogues and mosques and other faith leaders who are interested in doing because, frankly, these are ubiquitous. Every faith tradition is dealing with the challenges that families are facing because the church doesn't always know.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And frankly, it's a very bipartisan and, as I said, spiritual thing. So I'm working with the Catholic Church to try to do some things. And we are now finding synagogues and mosques and other faith leaders who are interested in doing because, frankly, these are ubiquitous. Every faith tradition is dealing with the challenges that families are facing because the church doesn't always know.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And frankly, it's a very bipartisan and, as I said, spiritual thing. So I'm working with the Catholic Church to try to do some things. And we are now finding synagogues and mosques and other faith leaders who are interested in doing because, frankly, these are ubiquitous. Every faith tradition is dealing with the challenges that families are facing because the church doesn't always know.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

They're not in the business of getting someone who's got schizophrenia or bipolar addiction to treatment. That's not their job. But they can be there for the families of those people. folks.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

They're not in the business of getting someone who's got schizophrenia or bipolar addiction to treatment. That's not their job. But they can be there for the families of those people. folks.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

They're not in the business of getting someone who's got schizophrenia or bipolar addiction to treatment. That's not their job. But they can be there for the families of those people. folks.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And as a person who grew up in a family that suffered from alcoholism, there's very little in the way of Al-Anon, which is the group, 12-step group for people who have family members who are suffering from these illnesses.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And as a person who grew up in a family that suffered from alcoholism, there's very little in the way of Al-Anon, which is the group, 12-step group for people who have family members who are suffering from these illnesses.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And as a person who grew up in a family that suffered from alcoholism, there's very little in the way of Al-Anon, which is the group, 12-step group for people who have family members who are suffering from these illnesses.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And I figure maybe churches and other places of worship can do more to help those families going through this, encouraging group conversations within the parish, within others within the parish who are facing similar things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And I figure maybe churches and other places of worship can do more to help those families going through this, encouraging group conversations within the parish, within others within the parish who are facing similar things.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And I figure maybe churches and other places of worship can do more to help those families going through this, encouraging group conversations within the parish, within others within the parish who are facing similar things.