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Louis Armstrong's Battle with MENTAL HEALTH

Name: Louis Armstrong's Battle with MENTAL HEALTH
Uploaded: 2024-07-20T16:00:24+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Rob Lipsett
Description: In this monologue, the speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding one's purpose for attending therapy, sharing his own journey of six months of…

20 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding one's purpose for attending therapy, sharing his own journey of six months of sobriety during which he repaired his business, mental health, and physical fitness, even completing marathons. He acknowledges that despite these improvements, his relationship with his partner Cindy remains a challenge, as both struggle with conflict resolution. Rather than ending the relationship, they choose to invest effort into it, highlighting the belief that genuine commitment requires active work. The overall narrative ties personal growth, mental health maintenance, and relational dedication together as interconnected aspects of a healthier life.

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I think it's important first that you know why you, why you're going there, your reason for therapy. Because for me, on my 6-month sober journey, everything in my life was fixed. So I wasn't making— I wasn't messing up anymore. I fixed my business, I fixed my mental health, I fixed my, my physical health. I was the fittest I've ever been, to run marathons. And the last thing that I needed to fix was the relationship, because I knew that me and Cindy, whenever we have a problem, it's— it escalates so bad because I'm not very good at dealing with it and she's not very good at dealing with it. So the relationship with me and Cindy, obviously it would be easy for me just to be like, okay, me and Cindy don't work, break up with her. But yeah, we both love each other, so we want to work. And I think that's the key in a relationship, is if you really want it to work, you need to put in the work.