Mormon Family Struggles with Mental Health Issues - Lance and Brandee Heppler Pt. 1
39K views · Mar 21, 2023 · People & Blogs
Comments · 121
@keymeter1917 · 3 years ago
Margi intuitively and patiently asks the right questions. She gets the tone just right. Her ability to read her interviewees is spot on. Brandee is amazing. A confident introvert. Candid reflective and credibly sincere. Candee and Margi are OG's. The hubbies are ok too.
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@Moviequotesandsarcasm · 3 years ago
Mental illness in the church has been such a huge problem. I was RS president and completely open about my depression and anxiety. I made sure I spoke about it often so that others wouldn’t feel alone. I really hate that the churches answer to depression is pray and get lost in service. If I can’t even get out of bed for me there is no way I’m going to get up for someone else, other than my kids.
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@saramariavelezverbel6698 · 3 years ago
This couple really touched me, I also see myself in their story. I am 55 now, I´ve been in the church since I was 16 and I ´ve had a hard life and some many problems and I´ve neve heard an advise from my leaders I have felt lonely. I was about to cry when I saw this incredible and real people. Thanks for all people involved in this podcast.
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@parkviewmo · 3 years ago
These are very generous people to share this much. I hope they understand how much they have helped and impacted me. I just realized that I have let someone I love tell me that my mental health issues are spiritual issues. I KNOW better than that, but I forgot! Thank you!
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@Ynnsie · 3 years ago
I hope you're feeling okay, Brandee. BP#1 in my family - cruel disorder. By sharing despite feeling exposed and uncomfortable, you will certainly have helped - will help - many people. Very generous. You did a good thing by sharing. Take care of yourself. Take care of her, Lance!
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@ApricotsforBreakfast · 3 years ago
I appreciated her honesty so much.
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@carschmn · 3 years ago
They are such a cute couple. I was amused at how they tease each other.
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@Lioness_of_Gaia · 3 years ago
While struggling with Depression, anxiety and panic attacks in high school, my Dad told me, "Wickedness never was happiness." <br>I hadn't remembered my early childhood SRA, yet. <br>My dad has passed, but it still stings.
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@teemarie5478 · 3 years ago
I have to say the three things he was doing was a lot just getting married, being a good parent/ husband, being a good Mormon which is a lot, and going to college full time, and working😰 that’s a lot for anyone.
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@valerienelson3296 · 3 years ago (edited)
Really liked these 2 ❤ I think your feelings grow as we grow as people. Thank you for talking about Mental Health so open & honestly. The more people talk about it, the more people become comfortable with conversating about it ❤
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@atheistdiva4141 · 3 years ago
One branch of my family is rampant with alcoholics. An aunt was murdered, and she was so drunk she couldn't identify her killer. Even unto the generation below me, addiction is rampant. Because two contemporary relatives were diagnosed as bipolar, we look at all those other relatives as people who had no way to treat their illness or manage it. Some were lucky and weren't bipolar; more of them were probably bipolar and alcoholics. I showed an article to my mother about her aunt Kate being committee to the state hospital for postpartum depression and she replied "I thought she was one of the normal ones." In other words, she didn't become an alcoholic.
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@mylifewithmarmalade4624 · 3 years ago
Such an excellent story. There are so many damaging things in the church, but this unhappiness as moral defect is just the freaking worst. Having mental health struggles does not make you morally defective. All the prayer and righteousness in the world is not going to “fix” mental health issues, but the attitude that it can will certainly make them a whole lot worse.
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