>>ANNOUNCER: IT HAS
STOOD THE TEST OF TIME...
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GOD'S BOOK, THE BIBLE.
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STILL RELEVANT IN
TODAY'S COMPLEX WORLD.
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IT IS WRITTEN . . .
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SHARING MESSAGES OF
HOPE AROUND THE WORLD.
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Chris: Thank you for choosing to
watch It Is Written. We are in
the seventh and last part
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of our series "Depression: The
Way Out." And what a blessing it
is to know that depression,
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which touches almost every
family in the world, is not the
end. There is a way out.
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God has so created the human
mind that the human mind can
actually repair itself and can
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find good mental health. Over
the last several weeks, I have
had the privilege of having
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Dr. Neil Nedley with me through
that series. Dr. Nedley, I'm so
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thankful that you've joined us
again to be a part of this
series. Dr. Nedley: Thank you,
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it's good to be here, Chris,
thank you. Chris: Dr. Nedley is
a physician of 27 years with a
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specialty in internal medicine,
specializing in mental health
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and the difficult-to-diagnose
patient. Dr. Nedley is also the
president of Weimar Institute.
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And Dr. Nedley, just as a
refresher for our audience, what
is Weimar institute? Dr.
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Nedley: Weimar Institute is an
educational institute, higher
educational institute, has a
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college. But it also has a
lifestyle centre that we treat
diabetes, a lot of physical
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diseases, even cancer. And we
also have an emotional health
section where we treat
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depression and anxiety recovery.
Chris: Now, if someone were
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interested in Weimar Institute
or those two recovery. or those
two programs, the depression
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recovery, or the NEWSTART
program, what are some websites
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that they might be able to go to
to get more information? Dr.
Nedley: Yeah, for the depression
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recovery, it's simply
depressionthewayout.com. Chris:
Okay, that's an easy
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one. Dr. Nedley: Yeah. And for
the physical disease portion,
that is NEWSTART.com.
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Chris: Okay. Dr. Nedley: And
then for the college or the
educational institutions,
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there's also a four-month
training course that anyone can
really be a part of, and
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then the lifestyle treatment of
disease and that sort of thing.
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That is simply Weimar.edu.
Weimar.edu. Chris: Wonderful.
Now, in this last piece of our
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series, we are going to talk
more about emotional
intelligence. In fact, part six
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was all about emotional
intelligence. And just to maybe
review a little bit, what is
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emotional intelligence? Dr.
Nedley: That's understanding our
emotions and the emotions
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of others and responding to
those in a healthy way. Chris:
And how important is
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emotional intelligence or EQ?
Dr. Nedley: It has more to do
with our success and happiness
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than even our IQ does. Chris: It
has more to do with our success
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than even our IQ. Dr. Nedley:
Yeah. Chris: So this is
something we want to be
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listening, we want to be intent
and understand what we're
talking about when we talk about
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emotional intelligence. Dr.
Nedley: Correct. Chris: Now,
what are some ways that a
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person can improve their
emotional intelligence? Dr.
Nedley: Once we understand
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that it's our thoughts that
cause our emotions and
behaviour, we can actually
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analyze our thoughts for
distortions. And there's ten
different distorted ways of
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thinking that we teach people.
And then after they recognize
which distortion is present,
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then they have the chance to
reconstruct their thoughts into
what's true and accurate.
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And a good thought that is true
and accurate will also be one to
help us to achieve our
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goals and to help us to feel the
way we want to feel. That's what
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we call a rational thought.
Chris: Okay. Dr. Nedley: And so
it gets into analyzing our
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thoughts and correcting those
thoughts. Chris: And in simple
principles, as we talk about
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this, so in our last show, we
left off with this idea, stop or
pause, and think. Dr.
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Nedley: That's right. Chris: And
then what were those two words
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that you used to describe how we
change that thought pattern? Dr.
Nedley: Well, we have to be
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intentional and forceful to find
evidence that supports a
different way of thinking.
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Chris: Okay. So we stop, we
pause, we're intentional and
forceful, and actually change
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how we think. And by changing
how we think, it changes how we
feel, and in so doing,
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allows us to achieve the goals
that we have in life. Dr.
Nedley: That's right. Not only
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changes how we feel, but it
changes our behaviour once that
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happens as well. Chris: And you
know, one of the things I
appreciated most about what you
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said there and what you have
been saying is you've talked
about rational thought. And I
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think even in one of the shows,
I use the word "positive
thinking" and then you've
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corrected that to rational
thinking. And I like that
because you know, we live in a
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world where there's a lot of
books written on the power of
positive thinking, and these
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kinds of things. We're not
talking about some self-help
stuff here. What we're talking
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about is practical: stopping,
analyzing, and then actually
changing how we think. Dr.
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Nedley: Mmhmm. And one of the
ways of doing this is to
recognize when we have an
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irrational thought. Now, an
irrational thought means that
you're not feeling the way you
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want to feel. If you're not
feeling the way you want to feel
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right now, there's irrational
thought behind that. If you are
not thinking in a way that helps
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you to achieve your goals,
that's irrational. Or if you are
thinking things that are just
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twisted and plain wrong, that's
irrational. So if you. those are
little red flags, if
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people are going through their
day and they're saying, "I don't
want to feel this way,"
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they've got an irrational
thought. Or if they're
recognizing, "You know, I'm
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not sure I'm thinking
accurately. I'm in this fog. I'm
not thinking clearly,"
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then that would be irrational as
well. So there's little cues
that we can have to tell
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us it's time to stop. It's time
to rethink and turn that
irrational thought into a
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rational thought. Chris: And for
those that may have not watched
our previous programs,
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that effect or that ability to
have a rational thought can be
affected by a lot of outside
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influences, and so they're going
to want to watch the previous
programs to help see
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what those outside influences
are, because if we're able to
correct those, it's hard
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enough to think rationally
sometimes when we have no
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outside influences controlling,
really, or impeding our thought
process. Dr. Nedley: Right. We
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put people on what we call the
spa therapy first when they come
to our depression and anxiety
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recovery program. And those are
things that we are having them
change lifestyle-wise to
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their brain have better
function: good exercise, good
diet, light therapy, working
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on getting them adequate and
restorative sleep. The
hydrotherapy part is
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important. We even utilize
massage. And so we're doing
everything that helps this
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brain function, and then once
the brain is able to function,
that's when we start this
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process of analyzing their
thoughts, and that's when things
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click, and they're never the
same again once they're able to
get this down. Chris: Wow. Now,
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what are the characteristics of
someone who has high emotional
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intelligence? Dr. Nedley: Well,
they're going to be curious
about other people. They're
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going to be managing their
emotions instead of being
managed by their emotions.
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They're going to have good
relationships. And they're going
to be well-motivated to achieve
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their goals. They're going to be
very interested in being a
moral, good person. They'll
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know their strengths and
weaknesses accurately. When they
are upset, they'll know
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exactly why they're upset.
If they do make a mistake, they
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will actually take
responsibility for their mistake
and grow from that. And there's
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other attributes as well. But
they're just great people to be
around and they're people that
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are actually improving over
time. Chris: Okay. So we've made
a lot of this practical. Let's
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look at some case studies. And
you and I have talked. What
better place to find case
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studies than in God's Word?
Because we see in the Bible
actually some good case
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studies on emotional
intelligence. Dr. Nedley: Yes.
Chris: Now, Dr. Nedley, any
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characters, any individuals in
the Bible that come to mind that
we want to talk about a
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little bit when we talk about
emotional intelligence? Dr.
Nedley: Well, Saul had issues
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with his emotions. He was not
feeling the way he wanted to
feel. Chris: Okay. So we're
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talking about King Saul of the
Old Testament, the first king of
Israel. And you say he's
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not having some good thoughts.
Let's talk about that a little
bit. What kind of not good
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thoughts was Saul having? Dr.
Nedley: Well, he was having
thoughts of anger and rage and
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jealousy and depression. He
would go into severer depression
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and anxiety. Chris: Okay. And we
see that. I mean, we see that in
his dealing with David
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specifically. David would become
king after Saul. And he was
jealous of David. He would
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get angry with David. But you
said Saul was depressed. Dr.
Nedley: Mmhmm. Chris: How do
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you know that Saul was
depressed? Dr. Nedley: Well, his
counsellors actually
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stated it. They said, "We need
to find a therapist to help this
man out. We don't know
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what to do with him." And he
actually was down and felt
hopeless. That's part of
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depression. Chris: Okay. And so
how does he then begin to feel
or begin to get better
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from that? Dr. Nedley: Well, the
music therapy did help him to
have rational thoughts. And
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by the way, music therapy can be
helpful today. We utilize it in
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our program. Chris: Okay. Now, I
want to his a pause button
there. You said music therapy.
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And we've briefly touched on
that in these programs. What do
you mean by music therapy? Dr.
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Nedley: Well, it needs to be
melodious music. It needs to be.
the rhythm needs to be
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more subdued. You know, that's
why harp is ideal for this. You
know, you can't play the
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harp too loud. Chris: Okay. Dr.
Nedley: And it brings out
melodies and harmonies much
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more than the rhythm. And just
focusing in on that can help
calm the mind and balance it.
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Chris: Okay. So when we talk
about music therapy, we're not
talking about 80s pop, we're
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not talking about rock music,
we're not talking about heavy
metal. Dr. Nedley: No.
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Chris: We're talking about
melodious music. You used the
harp. What other kind of
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examples, for someone who's
listening and saying, "Music can
actually help me think
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better." What other kind of
music are we talking about? Dr.
Nedley: Well, the music of
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Handel and Bach and many of
these composers. Actually,
Handel wrote his music for a
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king that had depression. He
understood music therapy. That's
what the water music
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was about, to get the king out
on the river, get him outside in
the light, and you know,
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bring him down the river, where
all this music was, to enhance
his thoughts. And it
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worked. Chris: Okay. So Saul
goes through the music therapy.
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And it calms his nerves. But
does it solve all of his
problems? Dr. Nedley: Well,
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here's the issue. He had a
cognitive distortion called
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magnification and minimization.
Chris: Magnification and
minimization. Dr. Nedley: Yes.
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Majoring in minors and minoring
in majors. Getting things out of
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proportion. Chris: Okay. Dr.
Nedley: Now, the first way he
minimized things is when Samuel
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confronted him with mistakes
that he had made. He minimized
them and justified himself.
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Chris: Okay. Dr. Nedley: And you
know, when a man makes a mistake
and doesn't correct
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it, he's committing another
mistake. Chris: Yes. Dr. Nedley:
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And that another mistake is even
worse than the first because
he's doomed to repeat it. And so
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instead of acknowledging where
he went wrong and taking
responsibility, which is what
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an emotionally intelligent
person will do, he minimized it.
And then he began to
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magnify the discipline that took
place. He thought it was very
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unfair that his punishment
outweighed the crime. But yet,
the punishment was given by God.
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We know God is a just God. And a
lot of people that dwell on
being treated unfairly all the
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time actually have been treated
rather fairly. And Saul was
treated fairly in this whole
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situation. Now, we also need to
understand that every human
being is going to be treated
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unfairly at times. Chris:
Absolutely. Dr. Nedley: But when
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we're treated unfairly and we
continue to rehearse it and
dwell on it, that's going to
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lower our emotional intelligence
significantly. So we should
never dwell on how we've been
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treated unfairly and continue to
rehearse it. And then the third
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aspect of this magnification is
he magnified himself. And
magnification of self, where we
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get into egotism and arrogance,
we might actually feel better
being arrogant at first, but
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arrogance always comes before
feelings of worthlessness. So
first you have pride, then as
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a result you have wounded pride
later on, and then you begin to
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have these awful thoughts. And
if you remember, they were
coming in from a great victory.
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And the women were so glad to
see them because they were alive
and the women were going to be
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protected now and so thousands
of women came together to
celebrate this homecoming. And
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they sang this song: "Saul has
slain his thousands, but David
his tens of thousands." And if
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Saul had not developed a sense
of pride, elevated sense of
self, pride would've never
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even wounded. He would have just
put his arm around David and
said, "I put him in a
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position to succeed." And he
would've been very glad to
honour the all-star of the
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battle as well. But instead, his
pride was wounded. And you know,
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there's a great book. In fact,
we recommend it. It's called
What Your Counsellor Never Told
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You: The Seven Sins that Lead to
Mental Illness. It's actually
written by a clinical
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psychologist, William Backus.
But he gives you a little test
to see whether you might have
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pride or whether the viewer
might have pride. Trying to be
noticed. Craving attention.
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Itching for compliments. Needing
to be important. detesting the
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idea of being submissive.
Loathing the idea of admitting
to wrongdoing. Strongly
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opinionated. Argumentative.
Demanding and actually standing
up for our individual rights all
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the time. And then thinking we
have excellences we actually
don't have. William Backus
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says, "Watch out. If you have
any of those or particularly
more than one, pride is there.
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And wounded pride will follow."
Chris: And we know the end of
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the story for Saul is not a
happy story. Saul never resolves
his mental illness. Dr. Nedley:
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He never took care of his
distortions for more than a few
days. He actually did for a few
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days 'cause David actually
became his clinical psychologist
as well and helped him to
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correct some of those distorted
thoughts. But he didn't rehearse
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it and that's the other thing.
We have to practice this, not
just correct it once or twice.
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We need to practice it. And as a
result, when stress was coming
in to his life, he demanded
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that God answer him the way he
said He should. And by the way,
beware of ever demanding
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that the Lord answer you the way
you state that He should.
Because if He doesn't answer,
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chances are, He's already
answered; you're just not
putting it into practice what
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He has stated. And then he went
to the wrong counsellor. And
beware of going to the
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wrong counsellor. The wrong
counsellor gave him a lot of
truthful information, but then
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gave him some terrible untruths,
and that is, there was no hope
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for Saul, that he had doomed
himself, which wasn't true.
There was hope right up until
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the end. And now with these
feelings of hopelessness and
stress coming in, his enemies
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coming in, he did what you would
expect someone to do in that
situation: he took his own
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life, committed suicide. An
unnecessary death, had he taken
care of the underlying
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distortions that were causing
his mental compromise. Chris:
Wow. Now, there are
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many other examples we could go
to, but let's go to an example
maybe that is a little
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bit more hopeful. Dr. Nedley:
Yes. Chris: And let's talk about
Elijah. Elijah. How
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is Elijah a case study in
emotional intelligence? Dr.
Nedley: Well, Elijah actually
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was not prideful. So everyone
comes to depression for a
different set of reasons. He
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actually wasn't like another
Bible character, Solomon, who
was just trying to do fun
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things to obtain pleasure, which
of course, caused him to have a
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lot of lack of pleasure, which
is very common today. But Elijah
always wanted to follow the will
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of the Lord, so he was a
spiritual person. He was really
a whole person. He had
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a lot of great attributes. But
after his tremendous victory on
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Mount Carmel, he anticipated the
entire nation was going to
change, which actually, they
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were on the precipice of
changing. And then when his life
got threatened by Jezebel again
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and said he's going to be dead
within 24 hours, you know, he
did have a reason to fear her
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'cause she had killed all the
other prophets already. But
instead of waiting on the
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Lord, which he had always done,
he took off running for his
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life. And 30 days later, he
asked the Lord to take his life.
He wants to die. And of course,
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the Lord had to put him on a
depression recovery program.
Angels came and fed him food.
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I think there was some flaxseed
in that meal. He was put on an
exercise program to
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get out the cave. He had light
therapy. And what really helped
him, though, was the
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cognitive behavioural therapy
where he began to have a
dialogue, and then as a result
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of that dialogue, distorted
thoughts were found. And his
distorted thought was
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overgeneralization. He said,
"I'm the only one that has not
bowed the knee to Baal." And
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the Lord let him get by with
that the first time, but now
when he repeats it, the Lord
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had to put him on pause and
say, "Elijah, you're just wrong.
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You're wrong by a factor of
seven thousand." What he
should've said is, "I'm the only
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one I know of." But in reality,
he just knew he was the only
one, and that's why I tell
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people, "It's not what we don't
know that hurts us so much; it's
what we know for sure that
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just is not so."
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And so once Elijah corrected
that, he still wasn't better
until he followed what the
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Lord told him to do. The Lord
told him to do three things,
none of which he wanted to do.
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And this is very typical for my
depressed patients. Normally
they want to do a lot
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of the things I tell them.
There's usually one or two or
three that's saying, "Uh,
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uh-huh. I don't really want to
do this," but yet, those are the
crucial things that will
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get them over the hump. Chris:
Yes. Dr. Nedley: And Elijah
trusted in the Lord
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that he did those three things,
even though he had no
predilection to want to do
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them. And not only did he
recover from depression, he
established the school of
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prophets. And the Bible says he
was translated without seeing
death. Chris: That is
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an amazing story. Now, and not
just a story. That is an actual
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event of Biblical history. Any
case studies, and we don't have
a lot of time, Dr. Nedley, but
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any case studies of any patients
that you might want to share
briefly of success on
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emotional intelligence? Dr.
Nedley: Yes, I'll share the
story of Mikayla. Mikayla,
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like many individuals that come
to our program, suffered abuse
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at an early age. Chris: Okay.
Dr. Nedley: Actually, at age 13,
she began to be sexually
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abused by a friend. And she of
course didn't tell anybody about
it. But this beautiful,
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energetic girl that had all
these positive things that
everyone thought she was going
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to be a great woman, started to
spiral down and nobody really
realized what was going
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on. And so by the time she was
15, this guy had moved away, but
she started to actually
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try to find her satisfaction in
men. And she would go from one
relationship to another,
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one breakup to another. And
finally, she's in Cancun with
the relationship that she
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finally thinks is going to work.
She's working at a pharmacy as a
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tech. The pharmacy, head of the
pharmacy, is now very interested
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in her and takes her to Cancun
on this vacation. And while
she's flipping through his
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mobile phone, the first morning
there, she sees a provocative
pose of another pharmacy tech
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just two days earlier. And she
realizes, "I'm not the only one.
This is the same problem.
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There is no hope." And she tries
to take her own life with the
four pills. By this
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time, she's on four different
medicines. They misdiagnose with
bipolar disorder and all
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this. And so she ends up in the
hospital, comes out of the
hospital to his care, and then
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she does it with another
medicine which almost does take
her life. About a week
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later, she ends up in our
program and she's feeling
hopeless. She wants to die.
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Her parents don't know anything
about what to do with her. So we
put her through the
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spa therapy and then we get to
the thoughts. Chris: Okay. Dr.
Nedley: And what she had
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done is she had elevated this
desire for men to actually be a
need. And actually, to be
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happily married, we first must
be happily single. And actually,
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we don't have to have a
relationship in order to be
happy. We have to be happily
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single first. So we taught her
to be BP-proof, in other words,
boy-proof. And she even had to
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learn how to dress differently
in regards to that so she could
work on being happily single.
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And she got rid of her distorted
thoughts. Her feelings of
hopelessness she recognized as
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a distortion. And she turned her
life completely around. She is a
happy girl. She's off
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all of her psychiatric
medicines. She's now in P.A.
school. And she. her emotional
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intelligence is near the top of
the charts. So she's actually in
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much better shape now to be a
successful person than someone
her age who's never been
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depressed or anxious because
she's learned the principles of
mentally healthful living and
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she got rid of her
magnification. Same thing that
Saul had. She was majoring in
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minors and minoring in majors.
She corrected that. Chris: So
there's a way out. Dr.
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Nedley: There is a way out.
Chris: And even though life may
have been unfair to us, in
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reality, and not a distortion,
but life has really been unfair,
and terrible things
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have happened to Mikayla. She
was able to take time, pause,
analyze the situation, change
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her thought processes, and
actually get out of this rut and
now is living a life to
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its fullest and not letting life
dictate to her how she should
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live. Dr. Nedley: That's right.
Chris: And Dr. Nedley, I don't
want to put words in your
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mouth, but it would seem that
that is really what emotional
intelligence is all about, is
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about taking the time to stop,
analyze, change your thought
processes, and actually become
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a mentally healthy person. Dr.
Nedley: Yeah, the Lord said to
Elijah when he was distressed,
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"What doest thou here?" Chris:
Yes. Dr. Nedley: In other words,
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stop, analyze. What is it that
got you here? What are your
thoughts? And that was the
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process that started his
improvement. Chris: And that is
a point where we're going to
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stop because we're out of time.
And I think, Dr. Nedley, you
have encapsulated everything in
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just those few moments, that
there is hope and that there is
a way out. And Dr. Nedley,
00:25:52.38\00:25:58.15
as we close out this series,
"Depression: The Way Out", I
think I would find it a
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privilege if you would pray for
our audience on this subject.
00:26:04.66\00:26:10.83
Dr. Nedley: Father in heaven, we
thank You so much for the
interest that You have in our
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health of body, mind, and soul.
And just like Your desire for
Elijah to improve, and for
00:26:16.64\00:26:24.78
Mikayla to improve, You desire
each viewer here to live an
emotionally satisfying,
00:26:24.88\00:26:31.55
fulfilled, and successful life.
And so we pray, Lord, that You
might assist them and
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they might look to You for
strength as well as these simple
principles that we have
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been talking about, practicing
in their life what Elijah and
Solomon and others and Mikayla
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have had to practice, so that
they can not only live a life
more abundantly, but a life
00:26:52.01\00:26:58.55
that has an infectious, positive
influence on others. We thank
You for hearing and
00:26:58.65\00:27:05.65
answering this
prayer, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Chris: I've been privileged to
spend the last few weeks with
Dr. Neil Nedley, and I'd like
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to offer to you the introductory
DVD that Dr. Nedley has put
00:27:15.86\00:27:20.64
together that will give you
practical steps to emotional and
mental health. I'd like to also
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offer to you for any size
donation the full series,
"Depression: The Way Out."
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Here's the information you
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Chris: Dr. Nedley, on behalf of
our Canadian audience and the
audience around the world,
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I want to thank you for allowing
God to use you to help us find a
00:28:04.91\00:28:10.52
way out of depression and good
mental health. Dr. Nedley: Thank
you very much. It's been my
00:28:10.62\00:28:15.26
privilege. Chris: Dear friend,
Jesus desires abundant life and
He has provided everything
00:28:15.36\00:28:23.43
necessary to achieve that
abundant life. I hope you
enjoyed today's program.
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Please join us again next week.
Until then, remember, it is
written: "Man shall not
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live by bread alone, but by
every Word that proceeds from
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