Why more men are opening up about their mental health

Brut America

"Men, start talking."   Jonah Hill and Tom Holland are joining other male celebrities in breaking the stigma around men and mental health ...

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00:00If you're a man and you've got weight on your shoulders

00:04and you think the only way you can solve this by killing yourself

00:07please speak to someone

00:09I'd rather have me mate cry on me shoulder than go to his funeral

00:13Let's get rid of this stigma and men start talking

00:16I have taken a break from social media for my mental health

00:30because I find Instagram and Twitter to be overstimulating

00:34to be overwhelming

00:36I get caught up and I spiral when I read things about me online

00:41and ultimately it's very detrimental to my mental state

00:47so I decided to take a step back and delete the app

00:50There is an awful stigma against mental health

00:52and I know that asking for help and seeking help

00:57isn't something that we should be ashamed of

00:59but it is something that is much easier said than done

01:01I was running to things to avoid tough feelings

01:05painful feelings

01:07drugs, booze, Netflix, snacks

01:10I don't want to be running from anything

01:14I want to sit in it, I want to feel it

01:16It was kind of something that hit me within the last year

01:20and before that, growing up, I was a pretty calm kid

01:24and then when it hits you, you're like, oh my god, this is crazy

01:27Have you ever struggled with anxiety or depression?

01:30Not so much depression but certainly anxiety

01:32We are not our thoughts

01:34We all have to realize that the things that go on in our brain

01:36is not our true identity

01:38Anxiety is also something that I'm just now being exposed to

01:40For a long time, that wasn't a thing that we talked about

01:43I remember people talking about anxiety

01:45I just don't remember anybody when I was growing up

01:47that really being a thing

01:49It's something that every single person goes through

01:51and for me, I was sick and tired of compartmentalizing things

01:55that I didn't want to talk about

01:57and I just opened up

01:59and honestly, since then, my life has become easier

02:01I think historically there's been a stigma around anxiety

02:04because people are afraid to talk about it

02:06It's good that we're starting to have conversations about

02:08you don't have to tell someone to buck up

02:10You can say, hey, I'm here for you

02:12Who can I help you in any way?

02:14Got into therapy for the first time

02:16My sister was like, you need to see somebody

02:18You're sleeping until 4 o'clock in the afternoon

02:20Something's not right

02:22You need to see somebody

02:24You're not well

02:26I found that with depression

02:28one of the most important things you could realize

02:30is that you're not alone

02:32You're not the first to go through it

02:34Sometimes it happens

02:36You feel like you're alone

02:38We're sort of entering an age where

02:40people who don't talk about this

02:42My father's generation, they never talked about mental health

02:44or what was going on inside

02:46It was just bottle it up

02:48and the younger generations

02:50and hopefully my kids

02:52and their kids

02:54will have more open dialogues about this kind of stuff

02:56That's kind of the way out

02:58I always found like

03:00when you feel like you're not alone

03:02for some reason you can recover a lot faster

03:04you can see the light a little bit faster

03:06but when you feel like

03:08and a lot of people do

03:10they feel like they're completely alone

03:12and that's the worst feeling on earth

03:14Talking about it, to a certain degree

03:16sheds a little sliver of light in there

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