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A Chat About Eating Disorder and Depression
Watch: Nutritionist Miriam Raskin (nee Shain), raised in Crown Heights and currently living with her family in Pomona, NY, discusses eating disorders, depression and discovering the beauty and guidance of Chassidus. Video
Watch: Nutritionist Miriam Raskin (nee Shain), raised in Crown Heights and currently living with her family in Pomona, NY, discusses eating disorders, depression and discovering the beauty and guidance of Chassidus. Video
You’re amazing!!!
Thank you
This is much needed
Hi all, this is Miriam Raskin. I could be reached @freedomdancer which is an only female account and @watersofmiriam for the public. I am also found on YouTube @freedomdancer for dance and song and @geulavision for chassidus applied.
Thank you for reading and or listening!
I’m sure this was submitted with good intentions but this is horribly offensive towards those that don’t find recovery through religious texts and guidance. Many eating disorder patients require levels of treatment from therapy, medication and hospitalization.
Eating disorders are an illness. They need to be treated medically. It’s nice to hear that Mrs. Raskin is using the teachings of chassidus in her life, but that CANNOT replace medical expertise.
Most important of all, we need to stop stigmatizing any and all mental illness.
But, please…please….please do not confuse chassidus with expert professional therapy! Too many people, teachers and mashpios, tend to preach that everything’s in chassidus and we don’t trust therapists. This is deadly!
Chassidus DOES NOT replace expert professional medical care.
This is VERY important information !! HaShem should heal everyone NOW .
I was agreeing that although learning Chassidus is helpful for everyone, working with a well-trained professional in matters of mental health & issues such as anorexia and addictions is a MUST. Even the most caring Mashpia or Rav is simply not up to these challenges.
I’m not sure where you got that from the video. She talks about going to a professional so I’m not really sure where you misunderstood. Get professional help. And Chassidus teaches and can apply to our everyday life to bring light into it and take care of the our selves and the people around us. One doesn’t discount the other. She never said to use chassidus in place of professional help if one needs. I think you misunderstood or maybe didn’t watch the talk. Do not confuse what she said, please please please!
Right, she didn’t. What I said is that often those that girls confide in will suggest that they learn more, or better, or be more chassidish….the message here is definitely to seek professional help!
In addition to that, learning ch assidus can help…
I know the title might be misleading but I do say I went for professional help. Thank you for pointing that out for whoever may need.
I’ve been in therapy for quite sometime because of depression and therapy doesn’t take faster because you learn chassidus. I think it’s even rude of you to say that! Mental health is a real issue that people have real challenges from!
Embrace your own life and journey. She was shareing hers with others. No it’s not your problem that’s bigger it’s your journey just has a more. Think of it as have a bigger role in a play.
Hatzlocha Rabba!
Your comment is off mark, and it would seem like you didn’t watch the interview. She does not say anything to indicate that “learning chassidus can make your therapy take faster”.
Watch it again she does state that. She states even that her therapist was amazed with how fast therapy took because she learns chassidus.
You are truly an inspiration to all! You made it clear in your talk that only after you went for therapy were you able to appreciate the gifts of chassidus . Makes allot of sense because most people don’t even know how to apply chassidus and often take things out of context. Kol Hakavod!
Eating disorders don’t last for just weeks. Depression doesn’t just last for a month. Seeing a psychologist doesn’t just take 4-5 weeks worth of visits. Eating disorder and treatment for depression can take MONTHS of in patient treatment; and YEaRS spent on recovery.
Imagine, since about ten years, after I had a really bad time and much changed in my life, I felt so allone inside me, lost and incomplete, that I thought, it would never find and end, this struggle in me, to became hurt in a very bad way. I also made good expirience with chassidic philosophy and found a way to come out of this destruction from outside and inside, because I found out, that these were only projections given to me from my environment. I cleaned up with all the mess inside me, while I confronted my environment with… Read more »
This was nice. Thank you for sharing for the many that this validates but I don’t relate along with so many others suffering and tortured with eating disordered mindset and behaviours. I’m sorry this will be vague and hard to write in detail. I struggled and still deal with the mental and physical side effects of a deadly eating disorder (which manifested from PTSD )that nearly killed me and landed me in the hospital countless times.
This is mild compared to the eating disordered mindset and behaviors that lead to hospitalizations and heart failure .