XYBM Clips: Every Black man can relate to this
Express Yourself Black Man
Kizzle
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In XYBM 144, I sit down with Professor Odi — a psychotherapist doing incredible work with Black men in our community @blackmansafehaven. For his third appearance — and part two of a two-part series — Odi returns to share new insights on his personal stories of depression, suicidal ideation, and heartbreak, offering advice to Black men struggling with self-worth and societal expectations.
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| 0:28.6 | today. |
| 0:29.6 | We tend to perceive adolescent black boys growing into young black men as problems to be fixed instead of people to be hurt. |
| 0:42.3 | And that is what I mean when I say abandon. |
| 0:45.3 | Right? |
| 0:46.9 | I don't care why you, I don't care why you mad. |
| 0:51.1 | I don't care why you upset. |
| 0:52.7 | Your anger don't mean nothing. |
| 0:54.0 | You know, the invalidation, the emotion. why you mad. I don't care why you upset. Your anger don't mean nothing. Your |
| 0:54.5 | the invalidation, the emotional abandonment begins between the ages of eight and 16. So it is not |
| 1:05.7 | unusual that substance abuse also begins in this same space. |
| 1:11.6 | I had a client who raised her hand and she said, |
| 1:16.6 | it's hard for me to perceive that my substance use |
| 1:23.6 | because of some trauma, this, that I was just bored. |
| 1:26.6 | I said, okay. I was just bored. |
| 1:28.3 | I said, okay. |
| 1:31.8 | I was just curious. |
| 1:32.4 | I said, okay. |
| 1:41.7 | You were curious because you perceived that the people who were using the substances had some type of emotional |
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