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The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Episode 58: Angela Dugger—National Alliance on Mental Illness

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9756 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The most difficult year I can remember is going to end with winter, the most difficult season. We need to prepare—and that means wresting with mental health. Today, I'm joined by Angela Dugger, from the Ohio chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, for a practical discussion that has the power to change your winter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We all got 20-20ed, but I'm not playing the victim card, and I don't want you to either.

0:11.5

We're going to finish the year with some practical, actionable episodes to help you get momentum

0:15.7

that will take you into a new life now.

0:20.0

Don't wait until January.

0:21.6

Now is the time to get in the fight.

0:24.1

I'm Brian Tome.

0:25.4

This is the aggressive life.

0:47.5

Earlier this year, in the midst of the pandemic shutdowns, I began to notice some subtle changes in myself.

0:56.1

I was angry a lot more, irritable, not sleeping as well, impatient, had also lost a lot of my normal interest in hobbies,

1:02.4

some of my standard hobbies, motorcycles, engines, on and on and on when. And I went down a mental health checklist at the National Institute of Health. And what do you know? That's kind of

1:08.9

common for guys who are in depression. And so maybe for the first time my life,

1:13.9

I was battling some depression. It wasn't clinically diagnosed. I wasn't curled up in a bed in the

1:20.0

corner of my room with the lights off, but I've been feeling things that I haven't felt before

1:26.5

and not feeling things I like to feel.

1:29.5

So today as we approach the end of the hardest, suckiest year I could remember, we're going to

1:35.7

lock horns with mental health. It's important. It's timely and it's time we confront it and

1:41.3

talk about it. I know that this is a very common topic. Mental health,

1:45.7

people are talking about it more than, more than ever. But I haven't talked about that much.

1:50.0

And that's all it matters, that I'm talking about it. Because I get to say what I say,

1:54.8

I get to believe what I believe, and you have to listen to it, at least until you turn it off.

2:00.9

Maybe you already turned it off and I've offended you.

2:03.2

It's okay.

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