The book helped me also and I spoke (by phone) and got advice from R. Gamliel as well.
There was a story about a powerful non-religious lawyer in Europe who objected to the practice of a certain yeshiva that sent young bachurim collecting and complained to the Rebbe of the yeshiva and he answered him this is important so that they learn it is not wrong to lower oneself and ask for help especially if the alternative is a crack up. The lawyer remembered it years later when his situation changed and he was at the end of his rope, almost suicidal and he came back, to yiddishkeit as well as sanity. Besuras tovos v’kol tuv.