#445 - Matt Rudd - Does Anyone Care About Men's Mental Health?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Matt Rudd is Deputy Editor at The Sunday Times Magazine and an author.
Men between the ages of 45 and 49 are at the highest risk of attempting to take their own life. In a world filled with accusations of patriarchal overreach, it seems odd that men are suffering so much with their mental health. It's not good for them, or their wives, or their children. Matt researched men of all ages to work out why men are unhappy and what we can do about it.
Expect to learn why your 40's might be the weirdest period of your life, why men would rather be a workaholic than face their internal fears, the challenges with the male denial of mental health problems, why men feel indulgent shame if they're sad, why boys are trained to be competitive in school, how to tell if you're genuinely getting old and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Matt Rudd, he's the deputy editor at the |
| 0:06.0 | Sunday Times magazine and an author. Men between the ages of 45 and 49 are at the highest risk |
| 0:13.2 | of attempting to take their own life. In a world filled with accusations of patriarchy overreach, |
| 0:18.6 | it seems odd that men are suffering so much with their mental health in a world that apparently |
| 0:23.6 | they created. It's not good for them or their wives or their children. Matt researched men of |
| 0:29.1 | all ages to work out why men are unhappy and what we can do about it. Expect to learn why your |
| 0:35.3 | 40s might be the weirdest period of your life. Why men would rather be a workaholic than face |
| 0:40.7 | their internal fears. The challenges of the male denial of mental health, why men feel indulgent |
| 0:46.4 | shame if they're sad, why boys are trained to be competitive in school, how to tell if you're |
| 0:51.1 | genuinely getting old and much more. I really enjoy Matt's very dry, very British way of approaching |
| 1:01.1 | an incredibly serious topic. The male denial of mental health problems is so pervasive and no |
| 1:07.6 | matter how many it's okay to talk campaigns there are, there's still a lot more work to be done. |
| 1:11.7 | So I really appreciate the research that he went through for his book and all of the experiments |
| 1:16.6 | that he did to try and make himself better and then his learnings and his openness on the other side |
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