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Listen and critically think about what Dr. Pettit discussed in the brief 16 minute video.

• Dr. Pettit began his comments by referring to each person as ‘divine energy playing the game of life’. As you listen to the rest of Pettit’s 16 minute video, explain clearly what Dr. Pettit meant (about those divine qualities in people and in the ‘game of life’ they are playing in). Clearly advocating a perspective opposite of his medical psychiatric training Dr. Pettit shows how each of the stories #1, 2 and 3 indicate that “There is only one mental illness: chronic mental stress”. To answer this challenging question, you have to listen and analyze each of Dr. Pettit’s stories about people he treated in therapy (story #1: ‘Herb’; story #2: the very depressed and suicidal man whose mind threw him into deep ‘mania’; story #3: (related to story #2): the wife of the man cured of ‘mania’ who was driving herself crazy due to worrying. Dr. Pettit uses these stories to make his point about people (as divine energy) playing the game of life.
• Describe and explain what Dr. Pettit discusses as ‘a loving, joyful and quiet place of peace’, as the solution, versus the problem, as ‘chronic mental stress’. Further explain how Dr. Pettit relates this to one’s awareness of divinity.

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