April 25, 2025 • 41 mins
Enviromental Disparities that can cause you your mental health with Dr. Dorothy Jeffries, Behavioral and Relationship Consultant on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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And we are talking on this relationship day kind of
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Doctor Dorothy Jeffries.
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Good morning, doctor Jeffries, O war you good morning there.
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I am good today. It's a good Friday.
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It is a good friday, doct Jeffery.
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Here in Memphis, we got cloud diskies with Okay, but
that's okay, it's a good day.
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it's a good price. It's a good friday.
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It's a good friday. Thank you, so so, doctor Jeffries.
This day, we want to talk about something.
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You know, when we talk, we've we've always been into
mental health and talking about mental health and a lot
of things can affect our mental health and especially environmental
issues as well. So we want to talk about that
and the disparities. So I will let you sister have
the floor.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, Well, thank you, ma'am. And I'm really happy that
you came up with this topic because this is a
time where we do need to consider environment. You know,
what we talk about is how to make your relationship
holds from happy, you know, stable and all of that,
But if the people who are involved in the relationship,
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and whether that's with your relationship with yourself or with
your partner, or with your family, your coworkers, your community
and whatever, if you don't have it all together where
you feel mentally strong, mentally competent, mentally stable. And one
of the things I want to really emphasize is feeling
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mentally empowered because when I think about a lot of
the things that is going on in this country right
now and in the world in general, there's a lot
of instability. We have had an extraordinary resurgence of violence
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at all different levels, all type. I feel so sad
when I watch the evening news.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh my gosh, I hate to watch it, Doctor Jeffery,
and I do not.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Watch it every day, and I do not watch it
every night. But it never fails that when you turn
it on, whether it's the evening news or the morning news,
there has something catastrophic that has occurred. There now is
no longer you know what has happened in the news.
One of the first things that we look at is
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was there killing, was there any violence, was did somebody
get heard? Was it a car wreck? And all of
these things I think are tied to poor behavioral management,
mental distress, and a lot of I think it's a
disconnect now between feeling connected to your environment, feeling grounded,
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and where you are as a as a person, as
an individual, as a member of a family or community.
Because there's so much chaos that even though we have
not had a dedicated announcement of war or something along
those lines, we know that the country is unstable right now.
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We know that people are at odds. We know now
that even when people talk about somebody getting heard or
something happening to them, they lead with their political affiliation
and what have you. So we know now added to
all the other isms and characteristics that set people among
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the haves and the have not, even political affinity and
affiliation now counts with a positive or negative And that
has to have an enormous impact, not only on the
adults who have to contend with it on a regular day.
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Who are the ones listen sing to the news, or
to the ones working in certain environments that have shifted,
or who suddenly feel that they are you know, in
a war zone, even in their home community, or sometimes
for people who are in violence situations or terroristic relationships
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that they're already at risk. The stress levels that people
have to contend with these days has to be off
the Richter scale. And we have learned through all of
the health studies, the public health studies, the social studies,
the psychological studies, that when you feel that you are
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at risk or you're in danger, people who stand like
the deer in the headlights are frozen and they don't
know what to do. They just feel helpless and are
kind of waiting to see what it's going to happen.
Something's gonna happen to me. I'm just waiting to see
what and how and when. And then there are those
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people who might not feel like the headlights are on them,
But then there's that pain in the stomach, that tightness
in the neck, in the back, and the headaches or
the overeating or the loss of appetite, or the dreary
grayness that feels like a shadow or a blanket coming
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over you, shortness of breath, hot talpitations. You know, we're
all experiencing those kinds of things because we're living in
a state of weight of anticipation, fear, expectation that something
bad is going to happen to myself or someone that
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I love and care about. And it can be anything
as something happening in your neighborhood where there's a fire,
or you lose your home, or you know your rent
going up, or your mortgage is going up, or your
business is going out of business if you work for yourself,
or you're losing your creser. There's just so many different
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variables until it's almost I mean, it's just almost hard
to imagine that individuals can manage juggling and the environmental
piece of it is, there are about four or five
different areas. Economics drive everything. You either have enough economic
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power to manage your life and to create some well
being and opportunities for yourself, or you're at the other
extreme where you don't have enough to create any type
of protection or sustainability for yourself. That hits home on
some level. Housing housing is something either that you've worked
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hard to build and secure, and you when you go
into your home, or you drive up to your home
or walk up to your home, you view it as
a sanctuary, something that you've accomplished or you dreaded because
you're either in substandard housing or overcrowded housing, or once
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you get into your house, you still don't feel safe
because of the violence that's going on outside of your house.
Food and security, unavailable or minimal opportunities to provide the
health care that you need. And if you do need
emergency healthcare, will that resource get to you in time
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to save your life? So and it sounds like some
kind of twilight zone. It does. Yeah, but that's twenty
twenty five in Memphis and Jackson and many many other places.
How do we sustain that without losing a minds? How
do we sustain that without giving up you know, becoming
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morbidly to depress, or you know, just inappropriate or unhealthy
ways of dealing with that. The point today is because
I know we'll have to revisit this on several occasions
just to look at the specific types of environmental stresses.
The key thing for me to share is first awareness
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about it, to make people aware that what you're feeling,
what you're experiencing, is not solely a physical or mental
reaction to your problems. And usually the first resort is
to you go to a doctor and they may not
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have any discussion with you, because, as I said, healthcare
now is a privilege. It's not something that's necessarily available.
So you may not have the opportunity to sit down
and talk to somebody and make them aware of what
your personal individual situation, more than likely what you will
be prescribed in some form of pharmaceutical medication to address that.
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And although medication is a ready and a needed resource
for many persons, it is not to be considered a
long term or a long term permanent resolution to things
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that are happening outside of yourself. So the key is
how do we become educated and aware and knowledgeable about
the things that are threats to our mental and physical health.
How do we go about taking that information and using
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that to share it with keen folks and community folks
and church folks and what have you, and make them
aware and so that they can then do the association
to thinking about we are all in this together, and
starting with pockets within families or within groups or with
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community taking that information and working to try to build
coalitions to address our problems. And there are a lot
of creative ways you can do that. If you're going
to focus on a major you know, if you know
that everybody in your social groups eat poorly, don't look
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at menus, don't you know, spend a lot of time
on prepping and planning, starting a healthy food and menu group,
you know, working and walking together as a group, of
exercising the group, having self talk groups where you make
up the rules of the group and you meet, whether
it's back boom or in person, so that you can
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get some stuff out your chest, and not only their
brainstorm on things and ways that we can begin to
build some safety news. And when we're doing that, we're
also thinking about ways of how we can model and
create safety news for our children, who are even more
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vulnerable than we are to what's happened. So the point
is to listen, learn some things, take it a step
further into your own research so that we can begin
to have a periodic dialogue or what can we do?
You know, you see all the things that the police
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are trying to do, and I particularly watch the Memphis
things quite a bit, you know, where they can't keep up.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
They can't doctor Jeffers. It's horrible and they can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It is and when you have when you have a
of young people and we can see who they're arresting
and who's being charged with it. There is a generation
of young people out there who have no compassion, no affinity,
no awareness about who they are, where they should be,
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and what's possible for them. And so when you're at
odds with your roots, you don't take care to protect
your roots. And so, yeah, we'll shoot in a house
where babies may be, or yeah we're shoot into a
building where people are talking about doing something for the community,
or yeah, we'll ransomly shoot on a school ground or
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sell drugs near a school ground, all of these things
that further damage our young roots. But we also, because
we can't expect the police to do everything, we also
can create a community mature, educated and grounded groups in
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different communities to act as liasons, to begin to build
bridges as to what we can do internally, to do
things you can't. You know, for a long time, it
was kind of like black law. You don't see, you
don't tell, you don't say anything. But when my babies
are at risk and their lives are getting cut short,
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and all these mothers are weeping over the lost lives
of children that we don't know who or what they
could have done for the world that we do have
to take a stand. We do, and with these being
a lot of young kids. If you know, if any
of you've read Lord of the Flies, you know that
if we don't become a support and round up and
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heard off and cut off some of this monocal behavior,
they're going to grow and to take over. More and
more they take over. The more lives we're going to lose,
the more opportunities we're going to lose, and the more
people that we're going to have living in heartbreak and distress,
because eventually it's going to hit home. We're all vulnerable
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of being hit by a random bullet or being carjacked
or all of these other things that are happening. So
to me, it's at an epidemic level and we have
to take it seriously. And when we talk about where
do we go from here, how do we bring businesses
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into town, tourism and people that bring dollars into town
in methics and other places. We benefit from that, either
directly or indirectly. So there has to be a personal
buy in that we can't sit back and say that's
their problem and what have you is from North Memphis
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to South Memphis, from East Memphis to West Memphis, that
circles Memphis. And if Memphis is going to survive and
be as good as that officer was talking about the
other night, we're better than that. That's not who we are.
But when you're up there in the top five in
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the country, it's not enough people in Memphis but to
be in the top five. But there we are, you know.
So that's the whole you know, that's the whole booking
behind this and why it's significant. And then when we
think about where we live, poor people do not have
the luxury. When when when housing and is not standardized
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or up to part, everybody can't jump up and move.
Moving is expensive, where neighborhoods have abandoned houses and then
people use them for italy and what have you. Everybody
can move because there's a class house next to you,
or there's a gang hoold next to you. And then
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when external people start coming in and want to move
industry and things into areas where people are habitating there,
you are to be able to have some say so
about that, But you cannot have reasonable say soul until
you are informed and aware and organized as a thinking body,
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not an emotional body, not a screaming, profane body, but
a thinking, organized, respected body. You got to do your homework.
And if we're talking not just about for now, but
long term thinking, it's groups that make a difference and
how the groups are received when you are being made
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to a pure, serious and informed And there are things
that are happening in Memphis that need to be a
dress by reasonable, mature informed. And when I said educated,
I mean you if you had a sixth grade education,
you can read, you know how to do research, you
know how to go online, write a question into Google.
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They'll take you places for you to learn about what
it is you're interested in. And there are enough problems
for everybody to find their needs. And if you can't
think of nothing else, go into the village, the African village,
talk to pastor rail Wind. He'll come up with something
that you can work on. But my point is we
have to begin to use our resources to make positive changes,
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and to make them not only for ourselves to save
our mental and physical health, but for those of our children.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, while you were talking, doctor Jefferson, and I'm going on,
I had got this email and I want to let
me be cause some of the things you were talking about.
And this email comes from Ruby and she says, doctor Jeffries,
I feel myself getting depressed. I don't want to do
anything or go anywhere because of all the crime here
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in Memphis. How do I help myself and not stress out?
I am sixty eight years old and now I feel
that my life is ending.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What do I do? Ruby?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Well, the first thing, Ruby is making a point if
you have a health care provider making a portman with
your health care about to get any valuation, to make
sure because they're physical ailments that also create mass, you know,
math symptoms that may be viewed as psychological. So you
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want to rule out that you're taking care of your
physical health because let me tell you, it's sixty eight.
You are nowhere near your life ended, right right? And
we want to put more. I'm shooting for one hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
So me too, doctor Jeffers. I always said I'm shooting for.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm shooting four hundred, and I see enough people on
Facebook that's making it to one hundred and three and
all of that. But if I make it to a hundred,
of goods, so we need you, Ruby, you need to
go get your clearance there and then think about what
is it that's triggering. If it's fear of being outside,
start first with video calls, finding people that share your
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interest in something. Book Clubs online are a way for
people to read, feel committed to stuff, have conversations, meet
some new people you know, and then those people tend
to turn and then the more they enjoy being together
or looking forward to something, they think of other things
to do. This is the time when you know finding
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people that you're compatible with, and you don't know who
you're compatible with until you explore and make some new friends.
So isolation is one of the worst things that you
can do because when you're isolated, you know, you just create.
It's like a ferret in your head. There are more
problems and things that happen. But while you're waiting, you
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exercise is a key thing. Are you at a healthy weight?
Do you need to shed a few pounds?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You know you can.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Exercise in your house. You can walk around in a
circle in your house, or just walk the perimeters of
in and out of all your rooms. If you do
that periodically during the day, and so you're still getting exercises,
and they're exercise that you can do from a chair.
The key is you want to keep your body strengthen
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and agile, so that when you're ready and you're feeling
clear and you've got some direction, you want to feel
like going out and doing some things, dancing to YouTube
or or just dancing to music. Sometimes people just turn
to If you live by yourself, turn the music up
as loud as you like and dance to some of
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the oldest that you like. The key is movement. And
once you're moving, then you're going to feel better because
once you're in action and stuff, all of those zones
start moving and you're feeling lighter. The more you're doing it,
you're gonna look better, you're gonna sleep better, and hope
you'll eat better as well. Making choices not necessarily everything
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that we praise, but some things that will make us healthy.
And when you do that, the other thing you're doing
exactly one of the things I was talking about. You're
creating a self empowerment baseline for yourself. Ruby is doing
this for herself so that she can be ready to
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have the other part of that life that happens after
sixty eight. Good things happen to you after sixty eight.
I can tell you Ruby, Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
They do, Yes, they do, doctor Jefferes.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And once you start feeling energized, called back, and I'm
gonna tell you some other things that are not over
for you at sixty eight, Ruby.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Let me.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I want to go back to one of the things
that you said.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
You're talking to Ruby, doctor Jefferson, that could be to
a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You said, isolation is not good.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
It's not good because we're human and we're supposed to
be with other folks, so you know, and a lot
of people they just stay up in the house, is
just there and all they're doing is looking at that television,
which is probably making it work.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Why is an isolute isolation not good for you?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Because, as you said, we're social being interactions. You want conversations.
You people do talk to the TV. But if the
TV not talking back to you, then then that's another
problem that it's talking back to you. Right, you need
somebody in there, even to watch TV with if you're
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doing and if again, you know, there's some people who
are really frightening about going out, you know, and even
get you a get you somebody that you can do
a call with a video call. Watch some of your
shows together with somebody so that you can talk about
the key. The book club is another way engaging in conversation. Okay,
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do a video call to somebody that you miss, whether
it's a relative that you enjoy talking to. Make a
list of who that is. And then every day or
every other day, make a phone call, even if it's
just fifteen minutes. Make that phone call and just say hello,
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just thought about you and wanted to come.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I think doctor doctor Jeffery's phone messed up. Call me back,
doctor jefferes. It gives me a good time.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
To break that. I tell her to call and tell
me back her phone. Just you know how it happens.
Good stuff. Hold on, y'all, hold on.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
We will continue our conversation with doctor Dorothy Jeffries. We're
talking about how environmental disparities can help or hurt our
mental health. If you have a question or two like Ruby,
you can email me Bev Johnson at iHeartMedia dot com.
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can call nine zero one five three five nine three
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got doctor Jeffers back. She's gonna talk and hold on callers,
hold on, emailers. We got you next. Right here on
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A on your mind.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
To me, I'm telling you to just keep around, appear enough, john.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
And we're back. We're talking about environmental disparities and how
it can help or hurt our mental health and doctor Jeffries,
I'm going to our phone line to talk with common men.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Hi, common man, Hi deb I'm doing I'm doing well today.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
How are you I'm doing fan And hello to doctor
Jeffers on the other side. Yes, I really got a comment. Really, Uh.
I heard doctor Jefferson a couple of things that sparked
my my mind. Okay, when she said the the younger
generation and like you say, the police can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
After a while, they're gonna take over. And what she's saying,
what she said to me, holds a lot of truth.
And uh, that was one. That's one example of what
I was saying the other day when y'all was speaking
with Sandra. Uh, these guys, these young people coming in
and they're basically carrying on like terrorists, you know. And
when you get a group of people that's that's carrying
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on like that and continue to blossom, eventually they take
over if you look at it, if some some degree
they've taken over already because they have a lot of
people not wanting to go out, afraid to go out
and just be part of you know, social just being
a social being, you know. Uh, you know, So to me,
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what she said or what she said, it holds a
lot of fruit. And I say this in closure real quick, Bill.
Yesterday when I heard that there was three guys jumped
out and chase the young guy down over by Booker T.
Washington with assault rifles for all daylight. That's that's sicken.
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That's kicking. It's something wrong, and it just it makes
me want to how do we get somebod gone? You know?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yeah, I agree, common man, I agree, Thank you. Bye bye,
thank you coming man. Yeah, And and as you see,
doctor Jeffries, when you hear things like that that is
going on, if it's you and I and I and
I feel what Ruby.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Is saying, it's it's it's horrible, doctor Jeffries.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
So how is so?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So how do we work through this, Doctor Jeffries?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, I think that one of the things we cannot
afford to allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear. You know,
this is not the first time that we've lived in
environments like this. You know, we've been throughout they had
things have like been ebbed and plus you know where, uh,
when drugs first introduced in communities changed and then when
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gangs were predominant in a lot of the major cities,
then things changed. And what happened but the unfortunate things
with the people who were the adults and the older
people were forced inside and the young kids who are
running around outside totally out of control. And again, like
I see, when you have young people that have no limits,
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then we know we're headed for destruction. So that's why
we've got to you put that collective wisdom together, and
everybody has a role that they can play on some level,
from the oldest to the newest, all of the resources
do in the community asset? What resources do we have
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in communities that are willing to create partnerships to make
a difference. You know, when you have citizens in action
really working to reclaim what they've worked hard to build
and sustain, that's creating. That's creating a message. And I
want to say something about that. With this current administration
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on the national level, we see that people who are undesirables,
or who are being labeled as undesirables if you will, uh,
the unwanted, the unneeded people are being sent out, sent away.
And when the Ecuadorian president was in one of the
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things that the current president made the things we're gonna
send some homegrown people next. Okay. Now, a lot of people,
you know, they say things about what he says and
how crazy it is, but he also speaks a lot
of his personal truths and beliefs in the mix.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Of all of that.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yes, So who do you think will be next? Who
is the target people that come up with and uh,
people who are being who are black and brown that
are unwarned here may not all go back to their
country or origin, but they're going somewhere, and what somebody
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put you on a plane ain't and sends you out
of this country, it's unlikely you're going to be seen
or heard of from again. That's a great possibility. So
we've got to start thinking and getting ourselves together. And
maybe it's going to have to happen to some young
people for people to believe it. But it's already happening
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to the immigrants who are being deported, and they can
call it deportation because they were not citizens, but whatever
you want to call it. We came here on a ship.
We're gonna fly out on a different type. But you
can be removed if everything is lined up to make
that happen. So that's why we gotta read, we gotta listen,
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we gotta understand, and we gotta think, not stupidly, like
not just ranting and raving and taking to the street.
That doesn't work anymore. You've got to think and plan
and then, and we know that when you are in
a unified group, because that's how while most of us
are still here, we had to operate in groups that
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work together. Most of us who went to dominant colleges,
you found your people there and you kind of got
together in self preparation and what have you and supported
each other. We don't have that now, but we certainly
need it and can we know where to find it.
And there are older people who can help reconstruct those
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kinds of things. That's why I'm saying there's a part
for everybody to play, and we're talking about self preservation,
self preservation, but we still have to begin to address
our own immediate and familiar problems. First, good child, you
get some help, and if that doesn't work, then you
somebody else is gonna do it. And whatever you do
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to intervene has to be better than having a.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Funerals and you write doctor Jeffers, very good.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Last words this day, Doctor Jeffers, you'd like to say
to our listeners when we're talking about our mental health
and staying stable with all this stuff going around us.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Absolutely, I hope that a few seeds were received and
that people at least begaring to have some thoughts about
it pen to paper journaling about it. What is it
that disturbs you most about the environment that you're living in,
whether it's outside in the city, whether it's in your community,
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or whether it's in your home. What disturbs you about it?
What role do you play or not play in the
situation that you're living in? You know? And what is
it that is being affected in your life? Is it
your health, physical health, your mental health, your economic well being,
your sense of safety? What is it your isolation where
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you lose sociability? What is it that is affecting you?
And how much are you willing to pay before you
address it? And then, uh, when we do another periodic
conversation on this, let's talk about next steps. Where do
we begin, how do we look for, what do we
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have already to work with, and how do we begin
to use that as a as a foundational resource to
begin to make some things happen and to really evoke
some change, not just being passive recipient and trying to
swallow uh in hell, the change, the changes that are
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happening in our lives. I wish you are faith and
peaceful weekend in Memphis. Have the next good half of
the show, and there about it. We will see you
next week.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
See you next week, doctor Jeffries. I can't wait for
not the next week. We got a good one.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
What we do?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
All righty?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Take care you too, doctor Jeffries. Bye bye.
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And we are talking on this relationship day kind of
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Doctor Dorothy Jeffries.
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Good morning, doctor Jeffries, O war you good morning there.
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I am good today. It's a good Friday.
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It is a good friday, doct Jeffery.
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Here in Memphis, we got cloud diskies with Okay, but
that's okay, it's a good day.
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We have the same thing here threadned in thunderstorm. But
it's a good price. It's a good friday.
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It's a good friday. Thank you, so so, doctor Jeffries.
This day, we want to talk about something.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You know, when we talk, we've we've always been into
mental health and talking about mental health and a lot
of things can affect our mental health and especially environmental
issues as well. So we want to talk about that
and the disparities. So I will let you sister have
the floor.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Okay, Well, thank you, ma'am. And I'm really happy that
you came up with this topic because this is a
time where we do need to consider environment. You know,
what we talk about is how to make your relationship
holds from happy, you know, stable and all of that,
But if the people who are involved in the relationship,
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and whether that's with your relationship with yourself or with
your partner, or with your family, your coworkers, your community
and whatever, if you don't have it all together where
you feel mentally strong, mentally competent, mentally stable. And one
of the things I want to really emphasize is feeling
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mentally empowered because when I think about a lot of
the things that is going on in this country right
now and in the world in general, there's a lot
of instability. We have had an extraordinary resurgence of violence
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at all different levels, all type. I feel so sad
when I watch the evening news.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh my gosh, I hate to watch it, Doctor Jeffery,
and I do not.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Watch it every day, and I do not watch it
every night. But it never fails that when you turn
it on, whether it's the evening news or the morning news,
there has something catastrophic that has occurred. There now is
no longer you know what has happened in the news.
One of the first things that we look at is
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was there killing, was there any violence, was did somebody
get heard? Was it a car wreck? And all of
these things I think are tied to poor behavioral management,
mental distress, and a lot of I think it's a
disconnect now between feeling connected to your environment, feeling grounded,
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and where you are as a as a person, as
an individual, as a member of a family or community.
Because there's so much chaos that even though we have
not had a dedicated announcement of war or something along
those lines, we know that the country is unstable right now.
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We know that people are at odds. We know now
that even when people talk about somebody getting heard or
something happening to them, they lead with their political affiliation
and what have you. So we know now added to
all the other isms and characteristics that set people among
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the haves and the have not, even political affinity and
affiliation now counts with a positive or negative And that
has to have an enormous impact, not only on the
adults who have to contend with it on a regular day.
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Who are the ones listen sing to the news, or
to the ones working in certain environments that have shifted,
or who suddenly feel that they are you know, in
a war zone, even in their home community, or sometimes
for people who are in violence situations or terroristic relationships
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that they're already at risk. The stress levels that people
have to contend with these days has to be off
the Richter scale. And we have learned through all of
the health studies, the public health studies, the social studies,
the psychological studies, that when you feel that you are
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at risk or you're in danger, people who stand like
the deer in the headlights are frozen and they don't
know what to do. They just feel helpless and are
kind of waiting to see what it's going to happen.
Something's gonna happen to me. I'm just waiting to see
what and how and when. And then there are those
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people who might not feel like the headlights are on them,
But then there's that pain in the stomach, that tightness
in the neck, in the back, and the headaches or
the overeating or the loss of appetite, or the dreary
grayness that feels like a shadow or a blanket coming
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over you, shortness of breath, hot talpitations. You know, we're
all experiencing those kinds of things because we're living in
a state of weight of anticipation, fear, expectation that something
bad is going to happen to myself or someone that
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I love and care about. And it can be anything
as something happening in your neighborhood where there's a fire,
or you lose your home, or you know your rent
going up, or your mortgage is going up, or your
business is going out of business if you work for yourself,
or you're losing your creser. There's just so many different
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variables until it's almost I mean, it's just almost hard
to imagine that individuals can manage juggling and the environmental
piece of it is, there are about four or five
different areas. Economics drive everything. You either have enough economic
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power to manage your life and to create some well
being and opportunities for yourself, or you're at the other
extreme where you don't have enough to create any type
of protection or sustainability for yourself. That hits home on
some level. Housing housing is something either that you've worked
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hard to build and secure, and you when you go
into your home, or you drive up to your home
or walk up to your home, you view it as
a sanctuary, something that you've accomplished or you dreaded because
you're either in substandard housing or overcrowded housing, or once
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you get into your house, you still don't feel safe
because of the violence that's going on outside of your house.
Food and security, unavailable or minimal opportunities to provide the
health care that you need. And if you do need
emergency healthcare, will that resource get to you in time
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to save your life? So and it sounds like some
kind of twilight zone. It does. Yeah, but that's twenty
twenty five in Memphis and Jackson and many many other places.
How do we sustain that without losing a minds? How
do we sustain that without giving up you know, becoming
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morbidly to depress, or you know, just inappropriate or unhealthy
ways of dealing with that. The point today is because
I know we'll have to revisit this on several occasions
just to look at the specific types of environmental stresses.
The key thing for me to share is first awareness
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about it, to make people aware that what you're feeling,
what you're experiencing, is not solely a physical or mental
reaction to your problems. And usually the first resort is
to you go to a doctor and they may not
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have any discussion with you, because, as I said, healthcare
now is a privilege. It's not something that's necessarily available.
So you may not have the opportunity to sit down
and talk to somebody and make them aware of what
your personal individual situation, more than likely what you will
be prescribed in some form of pharmaceutical medication to address that.
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And although medication is a ready and a needed resource
for many persons, it is not to be considered a
long term or a long term permanent resolution to things
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that are happening outside of yourself. So the key is
how do we become educated and aware and knowledgeable about
the things that are threats to our mental and physical health.
How do we go about taking that information and using
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that to share it with keen folks and community folks
and church folks and what have you, and make them
aware and so that they can then do the association
to thinking about we are all in this together, and
starting with pockets within families or within groups or with
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community taking that information and working to try to build
coalitions to address our problems. And there are a lot
of creative ways you can do that. If you're going
to focus on a major you know, if you know
that everybody in your social groups eat poorly, don't look
(16:39):
at menus, don't you know, spend a lot of time
on prepping and planning, starting a healthy food and menu group,
you know, working and walking together as a group, of
exercising the group, having self talk groups where you make
up the rules of the group and you meet, whether
it's back boom or in person, so that you can
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get some stuff out your chest, and not only their
brainstorm on things and ways that we can begin to
build some safety news. And when we're doing that, we're
also thinking about ways of how we can model and
create safety news for our children, who are even more
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vulnerable than we are to what's happened. So the point
is to listen, learn some things, take it a step
further into your own research so that we can begin
to have a periodic dialogue or what can we do?
You know, you see all the things that the police
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are trying to do, and I particularly watch the Memphis
things quite a bit, you know, where they can't keep up.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
They can't doctor Jeffers. It's horrible and they can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It is and when you have when you have a
of young people and we can see who they're arresting
and who's being charged with it. There is a generation
of young people out there who have no compassion, no affinity,
no awareness about who they are, where they should be,
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and what's possible for them. And so when you're at
odds with your roots, you don't take care to protect
your roots. And so, yeah, we'll shoot in a house
where babies may be, or yeah we're shoot into a
building where people are talking about doing something for the community,
or yeah, we'll ransomly shoot on a school ground or
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sell drugs near a school ground, all of these things
that further damage our young roots. But we also, because
we can't expect the police to do everything, we also
can create a community mature, educated and grounded groups in
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different communities to act as liasons, to begin to build
bridges as to what we can do internally, to do
things you can't. You know, for a long time, it
was kind of like black law. You don't see, you
don't tell, you don't say anything. But when my babies
are at risk and their lives are getting cut short,
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and all these mothers are weeping over the lost lives
of children that we don't know who or what they
could have done for the world that we do have
to take a stand. We do, and with these being
a lot of young kids. If you know, if any
of you've read Lord of the Flies, you know that
if we don't become a support and round up and
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heard off and cut off some of this monocal behavior,
they're going to grow and to take over. More and
more they take over. The more lives we're going to lose,
the more opportunities we're going to lose, and the more
people that we're going to have living in heartbreak and distress,
because eventually it's going to hit home. We're all vulnerable
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of being hit by a random bullet or being carjacked
or all of these other things that are happening. So
to me, it's at an epidemic level and we have
to take it seriously. And when we talk about where
do we go from here, how do we bring businesses
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into town, tourism and people that bring dollars into town
in methics and other places. We benefit from that, either
directly or indirectly. So there has to be a personal
buy in that we can't sit back and say that's
their problem and what have you is from North Memphis
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to South Memphis, from East Memphis to West Memphis, that
circles Memphis. And if Memphis is going to survive and
be as good as that officer was talking about the
other night, we're better than that. That's not who we are.
But when you're up there in the top five in
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the country, it's not enough people in Memphis but to
be in the top five. But there we are, you know.
So that's the whole you know, that's the whole booking
behind this and why it's significant. And then when we
think about where we live, poor people do not have
the luxury. When when when housing and is not standardized
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or up to part, everybody can't jump up and move.
Moving is expensive, where neighborhoods have abandoned houses and then
people use them for italy and what have you. Everybody
can move because there's a class house next to you,
or there's a gang hoold next to you. And then
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when external people start coming in and want to move
industry and things into areas where people are habitating there,
you are to be able to have some say so
about that, But you cannot have reasonable say soul until
you are informed and aware and organized as a thinking body,
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not an emotional body, not a screaming, profane body, but
a thinking, organized, respected body. You got to do your homework.
And if we're talking not just about for now, but
long term thinking, it's groups that make a difference and
how the groups are received when you are being made
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to a pure, serious and informed And there are things
that are happening in Memphis that need to be a
dress by reasonable, mature informed. And when I said educated,
I mean you if you had a sixth grade education,
you can read, you know how to do research, you
know how to go online, write a question into Google.
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They'll take you places for you to learn about what
it is you're interested in. And there are enough problems
for everybody to find their needs. And if you can't
think of nothing else, go into the village, the African village,
talk to pastor rail Wind. He'll come up with something
that you can work on. But my point is we
have to begin to use our resources to make positive changes,
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and to make them not only for ourselves to save
our mental and physical health, but for those of our children.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, while you were talking, doctor Jefferson, and I'm going on,
I had got this email and I want to let
me be cause some of the things you were talking about.
And this email comes from Ruby and she says, doctor Jeffries,
I feel myself getting depressed. I don't want to do
anything or go anywhere because of all the crime here
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in Memphis. How do I help myself and not stress out?
I am sixty eight years old and now I feel
that my life is ending.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What do I do? Ruby?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Well, the first thing, Ruby is making a point if
you have a health care provider making a portman with
your health care about to get any valuation, to make
sure because they're physical ailments that also create mass, you know,
math symptoms that may be viewed as psychological. So you
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want to rule out that you're taking care of your
physical health because let me tell you, it's sixty eight.
You are nowhere near your life ended, right right? And
we want to put more. I'm shooting for one hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
So me too, doctor Jeffers. I always said I'm shooting for.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm shooting four hundred, and I see enough people on
Facebook that's making it to one hundred and three and
all of that. But if I make it to a hundred,
of goods, so we need you, Ruby, you need to
go get your clearance there and then think about what
is it that's triggering. If it's fear of being outside,
start first with video calls, finding people that share your
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interest in something. Book Clubs online are a way for
people to read, feel committed to stuff, have conversations, meet
some new people you know, and then those people tend
to turn and then the more they enjoy being together
or looking forward to something, they think of other things
to do. This is the time when you know finding
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people that you're compatible with, and you don't know who
you're compatible with until you explore and make some new friends.
So isolation is one of the worst things that you
can do because when you're isolated, you know, you just create.
It's like a ferret in your head. There are more
problems and things that happen. But while you're waiting, you
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exercise is a key thing. Are you at a healthy weight?
Do you need to shed a few pounds?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You know you can.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Exercise in your house. You can walk around in a
circle in your house, or just walk the perimeters of
in and out of all your rooms. If you do
that periodically during the day, and so you're still getting exercises,
and they're exercise that you can do from a chair.
The key is you want to keep your body strengthen
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and agile, so that when you're ready and you're feeling
clear and you've got some direction, you want to feel
like going out and doing some things, dancing to YouTube
or or just dancing to music. Sometimes people just turn
to If you live by yourself, turn the music up
as loud as you like and dance to some of
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the oldest that you like. The key is movement. And
once you're moving, then you're going to feel better because
once you're in action and stuff, all of those zones
start moving and you're feeling lighter. The more you're doing it,
you're gonna look better, you're gonna sleep better, and hope
you'll eat better as well. Making choices not necessarily everything
(27:22):
that we praise, but some things that will make us healthy.
And when you do that, the other thing you're doing
exactly one of the things I was talking about. You're
creating a self empowerment baseline for yourself. Ruby is doing
this for herself so that she can be ready to
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have the other part of that life that happens after
sixty eight. Good things happen to you after sixty eight.
I can tell you Ruby, Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
They do, Yes, they do, doctor Jefferes.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And once you start feeling energized, called back, and I'm
gonna tell you some other things that are not over
for you at sixty eight, Ruby.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Let me.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I want to go back to one of the things
that you said.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
You're talking to Ruby, doctor Jefferson, that could be to
a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You said, isolation is not good.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
It's not good because we're human and we're supposed to
be with other folks, so you know, and a lot
of people they just stay up in the house, is
just there and all they're doing is looking at that television,
which is probably making it work.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Why is an isolute isolation not good for you?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Because, as you said, we're social being interactions. You want conversations.
You people do talk to the TV. But if the
TV not talking back to you, then then that's another
problem that it's talking back to you. Right, you need
somebody in there, even to watch TV with if you're
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doing and if again, you know, there's some people who
are really frightening about going out, you know, and even
get you a get you somebody that you can do
a call with a video call. Watch some of your
shows together with somebody so that you can talk about
the key. The book club is another way engaging in conversation. Okay,
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do a video call to somebody that you miss, whether
it's a relative that you enjoy talking to. Make a
list of who that is. And then every day or
every other day, make a phone call, even if it's
just fifteen minutes. Make that phone call and just say hello,
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just thought about you and wanted to come.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I think doctor doctor Jeffery's phone messed up. Call me back,
doctor jefferes. It gives me a good time.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
To break that. I tell her to call and tell
me back her phone. Just you know how it happens.
Good stuff. Hold on, y'all, hold on.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
We will continue our conversation with doctor Dorothy Jeffries. We're
talking about how environmental disparities can help or hurt our
mental health. If you have a question or two like Ruby,
you can email me Bev Johnson at iHeartMedia dot com.
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To me, I'm telling you to just keep around, appear enough, john.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
And we're back. We're talking about environmental disparities and how
it can help or hurt our mental health and doctor Jeffries,
I'm going to our phone line to talk with common men.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Hi, common man, Hi deb I'm doing I'm doing well today.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
How are you I'm doing fan And hello to doctor
Jeffers on the other side. Yes, I really got a comment. Really, Uh.
I heard doctor Jefferson a couple of things that sparked
my my mind. Okay, when she said the the younger
generation and like you say, the police can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
After a while, they're gonna take over. And what she's saying,
what she said to me, holds a lot of truth.
And uh, that was one. That's one example of what
I was saying the other day when y'all was speaking
with Sandra. Uh, these guys, these young people coming in
and they're basically carrying on like terrorists, you know. And
when you get a group of people that's that's carrying
(33:09):
on like that and continue to blossom, eventually they take
over if you look at it, if some some degree
they've taken over already because they have a lot of
people not wanting to go out, afraid to go out
and just be part of you know, social just being
a social being, you know. Uh, you know, So to me,
(33:33):
what she said or what she said, it holds a
lot of fruit. And I say this in closure real quick, Bill.
Yesterday when I heard that there was three guys jumped
out and chase the young guy down over by Booker T.
Washington with assault rifles for all daylight. That's that's sicken.
(33:54):
That's kicking. It's something wrong, and it just it makes
me want to how do we get somebod gone? You know?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Yeah, I agree, common man, I agree, Thank you. Bye bye,
thank you coming man. Yeah, And and as you see,
doctor Jeffries, when you hear things like that that is
going on, if it's you and I and I and
I feel what Ruby.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Is saying, it's it's it's horrible, doctor Jeffries.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
So how is so?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So how do we work through this, Doctor Jeffries?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, I think that one of the things we cannot
afford to allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear. You know,
this is not the first time that we've lived in
environments like this. You know, we've been throughout they had
things have like been ebbed and plus you know where, uh,
when drugs first introduced in communities changed and then when
(34:46):
gangs were predominant in a lot of the major cities,
then things changed. And what happened but the unfortunate things
with the people who were the adults and the older
people were forced inside and the young kids who are
running around outside totally out of control. And again, like
I see, when you have young people that have no limits,
(35:11):
then we know we're headed for destruction. So that's why
we've got to you put that collective wisdom together, and
everybody has a role that they can play on some level,
from the oldest to the newest, all of the resources
do in the community asset? What resources do we have
(35:33):
in communities that are willing to create partnerships to make
a difference. You know, when you have citizens in action
really working to reclaim what they've worked hard to build
and sustain, that's creating. That's creating a message. And I
want to say something about that. With this current administration
(35:58):
on the national level, we see that people who are undesirables,
or who are being labeled as undesirables if you will, uh,
the unwanted, the unneeded people are being sent out, sent away.
And when the Ecuadorian president was in one of the
(36:21):
things that the current president made the things we're gonna
send some homegrown people next. Okay. Now, a lot of people,
you know, they say things about what he says and
how crazy it is, but he also speaks a lot
of his personal truths and beliefs in the mix.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Of all of that.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yes, So who do you think will be next? Who
is the target people that come up with and uh,
people who are being who are black and brown that
are unwarned here may not all go back to their
country or origin, but they're going somewhere, and what somebody
(36:59):
put you on a plane ain't and sends you out
of this country, it's unlikely you're going to be seen
or heard of from again. That's a great possibility. So
we've got to start thinking and getting ourselves together. And
maybe it's going to have to happen to some young
people for people to believe it. But it's already happening
(37:23):
to the immigrants who are being deported, and they can
call it deportation because they were not citizens, but whatever
you want to call it. We came here on a ship.
We're gonna fly out on a different type. But you
can be removed if everything is lined up to make
that happen. So that's why we gotta read, we gotta listen,
(37:45):
we gotta understand, and we gotta think, not stupidly, like
not just ranting and raving and taking to the street.
That doesn't work anymore. You've got to think and plan
and then, and we know that when you are in
a unified group, because that's how while most of us
are still here, we had to operate in groups that
(38:08):
work together. Most of us who went to dominant colleges,
you found your people there and you kind of got
together in self preparation and what have you and supported
each other. We don't have that now, but we certainly
need it and can we know where to find it.
And there are older people who can help reconstruct those
(38:30):
kinds of things. That's why I'm saying there's a part
for everybody to play, and we're talking about self preservation,
self preservation, but we still have to begin to address
our own immediate and familiar problems. First, good child, you
get some help, and if that doesn't work, then you
somebody else is gonna do it. And whatever you do
(38:52):
to intervene has to be better than having a.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Funerals and you write doctor Jeffers, very good.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Last words this day, Doctor Jeffers, you'd like to say
to our listeners when we're talking about our mental health
and staying stable with all this stuff going around us.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Absolutely, I hope that a few seeds were received and
that people at least begaring to have some thoughts about
it pen to paper journaling about it. What is it
that disturbs you most about the environment that you're living in,
whether it's outside in the city, whether it's in your community,
(39:30):
or whether it's in your home. What disturbs you about it?
What role do you play or not play in the
situation that you're living in? You know? And what is
it that is being affected in your life? Is it
your health, physical health, your mental health, your economic well being,
your sense of safety? What is it your isolation where
(39:52):
you lose sociability? What is it that is affecting you?
And how much are you willing to pay before you
address it? And then, uh, when we do another periodic
conversation on this, let's talk about next steps. Where do
we begin, how do we look for, what do we
(40:12):
have already to work with, and how do we begin
to use that as a as a foundational resource to
begin to make some things happen and to really evoke
some change, not just being passive recipient and trying to
swallow uh in hell, the change, the changes that are
(40:33):
happening in our lives. I wish you are faith and
peaceful weekend in Memphis. Have the next good half of
the show, and there about it. We will see you
next week.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
See you next week, doctor Jeffries. I can't wait for
not the next week. We got a good one.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
What we do?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
All righty?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Take care you too, doctor Jeffries. Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
That is our behavioral and relationship can Sultan, Doctor Dorothy Jeffries.
Thank you, Doctor Jeffries. Look forward to talking to her
next week. It'll be the two whole hours next week.
But coming up next as we go to the other
side of the Bev Johnson Show, We're talking with state
Representative Justin Pearson. Next with me Bev Johnson right here
(41:22):
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