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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Feeling down doesn't always mean you're clinically depressed, but how do you distinguish between the two? In this week's Friday Field Notes, Ryan tackles the rising issue of depression among men, shedding light on the feelings of sadness, loneliness, and inadequacy many experience due to life challenges such as divorce, addiction, loss, and medical complications.
He unpacks eight practical strategies designed to help you navigate these emotional waters and improve your mental well-being, with a reminder that seeking professional help is crucial if you're dealing with chronic or clinical depression.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
(00:00) Episode Intro
(00:40) Understanding and Combatting Depression in Men
(13:36) Strategies for Emotional Wellness
(23:53) Embracing Hobbies and Avoiding Isolation
(33:29) Overcoming Challenges and Choosing Productivity
(42:34) Joining the Iron Council for Men
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0:00.0 | If everything was wonderful all of the time, then nothing would be wonderful any of the time. |
0:05.6 | It's the down times, it's the sorrow, it's the heartbreak, and the loss, and the pain and the suffering of the human condition that makes all of the wonderful times that much more meaningful and so we try to work towards those things our emotions are our bodies telling us hey something something's off here, let's figure out what it is, |
0:26.0 | and let's do something different. |
0:28.0 | You're a man of action. |
0:31.0 | You live life to the fullest, |
0:32.0 | embrace your fears, and boldly |
0:34.1 | chart your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every |
0:39.2 | time. You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. |
0:45.1 | This is your life, this is who you are, this is who you will become at the end of the day, |
0:50.5 | and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. |
0:55.0 | Men, let's talk about depression today. |
0:57.0 | It is apparent to me that more and more men are feeling sad, lonely, |
1:02.7 | depressed, potentially even suicidal. |
1:05.7 | I see it every single day when I get messages from men |
1:08.6 | who are going through divorces, overcoming addiction, |
1:12.3 | maybe dealing with the loss of a loved one, medical complications, |
1:16.0 | or even just a continual sense of feeling inferior, inadequate, and unable to accomplish the things that they have a desire to accomplish. |
1:27.3 | Now I want to say that I am not medically licensed, I'm not a licensed therapist, I don't |
1:31.9 | have any formalized training in this, but after doing this for 10 years, |
1:35.0 | I have a pretty good understanding not only anecdotally on my own, but seeing thousands and thousands of men work through these feelings of depression and even suicide. |
1:45.4 | We've all seen and heard about studies that suggest that men are four times more likely to commit |
1:50.1 | suicide than women and there's a real reason for the crisis that we're seeing |
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