Do Men Bottle things up?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In todays retrospective episode Vic and Hamish discover that men are less likely to seek support because they don't want to talk about their issues as much.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of men's inner dialogue concerns what we believe others, particularly women, I reckon, want from us. |
| 0:19.4 | But I hope that by being open with you and hearing |
| 0:21.9 | what women actually feel, we might be able to dispel some of those myths. All I want is chocolate |
| 0:27.7 | and to be left alone from men. Okay. Easy to read your mind. Yeah, that's it. Nothing else is |
| 0:34.6 | going on up here. I guess it goes without saying that as a woman, we create stories in our heads of what someone feels about us. |
| 0:42.3 | And alcohol can feed that beast, of course. |
| 0:44.6 | Rather than being level-headed, our anxieties can take control. |
| 0:48.1 | Particularly if we are drunk or hung over, I'm definitely guilty of that. |
| 0:51.6 | We fall into the trap of worrying more about what people think of us |
| 0:55.1 | than how we feel about ourselves. |
| 0:56.8 | Should we get started with the numbers, Vic? |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, take it away, Hamish. |
| 0:59.9 | On average, one in eight men will experience depression |
| 1:03.2 | and one in five men will experience anxiety at some stage of their lives. |
| 1:08.4 | Bloaks make up an average of seven out of every nine suicides every day in Australia. |
| 1:13.1 | That is wild to me. |
| 1:14.6 | That is, yeah. |
| 1:15.2 | The number of men who die by suicide in Australia is nearly double the national road toll. |
| 1:20.4 | But it's not just suicide we're talking about here. |
| 1:23.0 | Men are also more likely than women to die from destructive coping mechanisms like drugs and alcohol. |
| 1:28.6 | The rate of mental health disorders between men and women is about the same, but fewer men |
| 1:33.1 | access professional help or a service. In fact, men account for only 40% of Medicare subsidised |
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