We need to know the difference between bad middos and mental illness
“And then he told me he regretted the day he married me, and he wished he never had to see my face again….”
Batsheva cried the whole night after hearing this from her husband. She felt as if she would break in two. This wasn’t the first time, either. In fact, for 15 years, not a week went by in which there were no such words. Yehuda’s poison spewed forth daily, prompted by nothing, anything, and everything.
Batsheva thinks her husband’s chronic complaints and disparaging remarks stem from his unhappiness in the marriage and blames herself for not being the woman he wants. She doesn’t know enough about psychology to recognize the mental illness she’s living with.
People who seriously attack, blame, insult, diminish, verbally and/or physically assault others on a regular basis are sick with something. Physical illness or brain injury, substance abuse, mental health disorder (depression, personality disorder, PTSD, or many others) — something is causing this behavior, and a diagnosis is required to discover what it is.
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