All right, men, welcome back to the men talk show.

Connor Beaton here.

And today we're going to be talking about three mental health issues that men generally

struggle with more than women.

Now, I don't have a peer-reviewed research paper to back this up.

This is based off of 10,000, 15,000 plus hours of working with men over the last decade.

And so we're going to dive in because I find that these three things are things that men are struggling with that oftentimes either go, we can call it undiagnosed or unrecognized within men.

And I'm going to try and speak to how you can move through each one of these.

So the first one that I want to talk about is dysthymia.

This is a persistent, mild form of depression.

It's kind of like a low-grade depression that doesn't really

lift. And it's not so bad that it's debilitating. I kind of call it functional depression. It's like

a guy is always a little sad. He's kind of got like a little bit of cloud of Eeyore around him,

but he still does life. He's still social. He's still of got like a little bit of cloud of Eeyore around him, but he still does life. You know, he's still social. He's still outdoing things. You know, you still go to the gym a couple times a week or, you know, you still function, right? It's kind of like a low grade functioning alcoholics. Like you're not full-blown. You're not missing work. You're not, you know, so bad that people are questioning

you about whether or not you should have that next Jack Daniels. It's just kind of like low-grade.

And the reason why I bring this one up and share it first is that this is the experience that

many men have that doesn't get addressed in therapy often. And this is the experience that many men

have because they feel a kind of uselessness in their life. They're like, I don't really feel like

I have much going for me. I don't really feel like I have direction. I don't really feel like I have

really solid connections. And so there's kind of like this consistent

and persistent low grade sadness and cloud and loneliness that they live inside of. And they

can't really shake. It's like I think it was Linus from Snoopy, right? The one with the blanket

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