The Interplay Between Religious Identity and Mental Health

my question is twofold number one under what circumstances do you ever encourage or guide someone to consider where where they situate their religious commitment what community they find themselves in not to God forbid leave completely a religious community but finding a religious community that aligns with your mental health needs is that is that a real thing and secondly what are the general trends that you find that people from within religious communities grapple with our religious community grapple with in terms of mental health those are great questions uh rev David So to break them down I I think the first thing that I really want to say is I'm not a rabbi uh I don't pretend to be a rabbi I try to be a banoni when I can avoid being a Russia and uh what can I say my job is to know when to involve a rabbi in order to better understand the circumstances and to better Provide support and guidance to my patients r no or schl who's a very well-known educator in our community who's written some fantastic books on Enoch and parenting uh has said to me on a number of times my job is not to be a therapist my job is to know who a good therapist to ask questions to are and so I feel very similarly