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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 36 MIN

Since I had a nervous breakdown long ago, why do I experience pressure now?

from Barry Long Answers · host Barry Long Foundation International

A woman says she had a nervous breakdown a long time ago and that since then she feels pressure everywhere; if she wants to do something, she reports, she turns it into pressure. Barry asks her what a nervous breakdown is, and she says she experiences it as her body not doing what she wanted to do. She says that on the telephone she cannot hear anymore, gets blockages, and cannot translate what people are saying, and that when she swallows she cannot swallow.~This exchange is drawn from recording 4 of 6 from the 5 day talks in Eindhoven, first recorded in 1997. These and many other never-before-published recordings have been meticulously digitised only recently and are now available for listening in high quality through the Barry Long Archive.Direct links to the full recording will be posted here, as it becomes available.~Barry Long Answers is a new, free podcast that invites listeners into the intimate dialogue of audience questions and the spiritual master’s answer. These exchanges provide universal guidance to a range of everyday issues concerning man and woman. Each episode begins with a direct question put to Barry and his uncompromising response.  The series draws from the Barry Long Archive, a repository of over 20 years of Barry Long’s teachings.For full-length talks and extended dialogues, besides 'Barry Long Answers', the usual 'Barry Long Podcast' continues as a separate stream, with both free and subscriber-only editions available. Or if you'd like access to the full Barry Long Archive, the Barry Long website offers a subscription to this.Barry described himself as the ‘Master of The West.’ His ideas, vocabulary and expressions are unmistakably and patently Western: down to earth and practical. His teaching is free from tradition or religion, be it Western or Eastern. Over more than twenty-five years he spoke to thousands of men and women and he addressed them where they were – in their real, living life. The reference point always being in living the truth now, not the past. In this directness lies Barry’s distinctive usefulness and uniqueness: a practical wisdom that addresses contemporary issues  and presents a way to transform the unhappy human condition into the freedom of being.The Barry Long Podcast: https://www.barrylong.org/podcast/aboutThe Barry Long Archive: https://www.barrylong.org/archive

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A woman says she had a nervous breakdown a long time ago and that since then she feels pressure everywhere; if she wants to do something, she reports, she turns it into pressure. Barry asks her what a nervous breakdown is, and she says she experiences it as her body not doing what she wanted to do. She says that on the telephone she cannot hear anymore, gets blockages, and cannot translate what people are saying, and that when she swallows she cannot swallow. ~ This exchange is drawn from re...

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