Someone going through divorce, it's got to be one of the most difficult things someone's going through.

You're potentially losing a child, you're losing your house, you might have lost your job, you're losing your relationship. I can understand why one in five male suicides in the UK is down to child custody battles. And then what's even more sad, particularly for men, is that a lot of the coping mechanisms they use, drinking, eating lots of food, gambling, porn. coping mechanisms that might work in the short term but long term make the problem worse.

George Horn is the mastermind behind the tinman. He discusses the topics most people avoid in men's mental health. James and George discuss male domestic abuse. The sad truth about male suicide. And... What's the problem with mental health? We're in like a weird position where everyone wants to talk about men's mental health, but no one ever seems to want to discuss the things that men are talking about. Some people say about one in three abuse victims of it's a man, some say it's two in five, so 40%, but ultimately it's not gendered. But what sadly is gendered is our response to abuse. I don't think there's a single Australian dollar that goes to men's services, but billions and billions that goes to women's services. So there's an awful betrayal of at least

one-third of victims, i.e. men and boys, where they're falling through the cracks and they're

living in misery and often ending their own lives.

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There's no auto billing, no sneaky fees, just bloody good coaching. If you don't love it, you don't pay. And if you do pay, there's a 14 day of money back guarantee as well. Okay, we'll get back to the episode. George, what is the problem with mental health? I personally, I think the problem, well, of men's mental health is what I speak about, is about what I personally feel other people in this space, as in the men's mental health space,

are not saying about men. We seem to have quite an antiquated view of mental health, where we

seem to think it's happening inside of our brains. And I'm very much interested in the sort of the

wider structural causes that impact men's mental

health that no one seems to be talking about.

We're in like a weird position where everyone wants to talk about men's mental health.

You hear it every day.

Men can talk.

Men can talk and or cry.

But no one ever seems to want to discuss the things that men are talking about.

And that's why I come in because the things that men are talking about are often quite unpopular, controversial,

but it's still important to talk about nonetheless. So I think it's time we did the talking,

as in advocates, because men have done plenty already, and now, you know, batons passed over to us.

So when it's occurring outside of the head, what does that mean? Well, it's the core, like, it's the structural impacts on men's mental health. So, I mean, I speak to a lot of fathers, of which you obviously one, who are losing children in family court. Family court is one of the worst places to be, especially for a dad. Her dad to lose a child is such an immense impact on his mental health.

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