Moment 62 - Mens Mental Health Isn't Talked About Enough, Here’s Why: Roman Kemp

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

With it being Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, I felt it was important in this week’s moment to focus on the importance of checking in with this prevalent topic in our current society. Roman Kemp tells us about the time he nearly lost his life, and how he was saved by a simple phone call from his mother checking up on him. Suffering from depression since he was a teenager, Roman has sometimes had trouble finding balance in his life. Thankfully, no one knew the ins and outs of his struggle like his mother. When she phoned him up asking how he was doing, he gave her an answer she was not expecting. She would never have imagined having to receive something like this from her son. Simple check ups with our friends and loved ones can have much more impact than we ever anticipate. Likewise, being open about our feelings can help to change them if they’ve gone down a bad path. I hope this moment from our conversation will help you to open up with your friends, and make this something normal to talk about.

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0:00.0	I talk about toxic masculinity there. One of the things that's always associated with that
0:05.3	is just men's lack of willingness to like make a phone call and to a friend and say,
0:10.7	listen, I am not okay. And you know, you also have been very open about the day where you
0:16.4	were feeling like that and your super woman mother once again. She called you coincidentally
0:23.4	or? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:26.1	Well, it was kind of like, yeah, I went to cooler and then like shit, like a texture
0:30.4	of a couple times and then she just called me.
0:31.7	Because you're feeling bad, so you text her.
0:34.3	Yeah. I mean, people are telling you this, but when you're in that zone, you know, if
0:40.0	you're in a absolute spiral, everything goes into a right blur. All I know is that I was
0:46.0	in my house and I was in my pants and I was, I could not stop crying and I couldn't stop
0:50.8	worrying about everything and my head was going like a whirlwind. Like, I was worrying about
0:55.7	stuff that wasn't even logical. Like, what was your brain telling you?
0:59.2	I can't even describe it. Like, it's like the only way it feels like anything in my head
1:08.1	that could have been a problem was a problem. Have you ever had like, you know, when you're
1:12.7	hung over and it will like the next day, I don't know if you drink, but the next day,
1:17.4	right? If you have a hangover, you have to, it's like paranoia thing like throughout
1:22.3	the like stuff just makes you feel a little bit edgy. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like
1:26.2	that, but a million times. The only way also that I talk about it is like, it's like
1:32.3	paranoia and it's like Mike, your brain becomes Mike Tyson and he's just beating you up and
1:39.0	you've not had one boxing lesson in your life. So you're just kind of like, you can't
1:42.0	do anything. You're just taking it, right? And it's like, you're things like you look
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