Men's Mental Health Awareness Month

We acknowledge the importance of your mental health and it is the one month anniversary of Uncle Johnnys passing.

Episode Transcript

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Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran inthe Morning Show. Uh. Yes,
June is Pride month. It's alsoMen's Mental Health Awareness Month, and that's
so important. I mean everyone's mentalhealth is very important. Yeah, the
thing is about men. Men typicallydo not open up as much as women

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typically as far as how they're feeling, what they're feeling and that kind of
thing. So June is Men's MentalHealth Awareness Month. I mean, every
year, one out of four ofus experienced some sort of mental health problem.
I think that's a low number,but a lot of us fail to
get help when it's needed. Inthis month, I mean, it's a

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good month to break break that stigma. You know. Do you think it's
because men feel like they have tobe manly and men so we have to
take care of everybody, and soyou have to take care of everybody.
Then you don't feel like, youknow, you can show that side of
you, sort of a machismo thing. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know
because I'm not that way, butI know i'd send to squelch how I

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feel a lot of the time.In the stats, men are four times
more likely to die from suicide.Wow, four times, making it nearly
eighty percent of all suicides in America. Forty percent of men have never spoken
to anyone about their mental health.WHOA, that's almost half. Yeah,

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one in ten men experience depression oranxiety, and that's less than in less
than half of them ever receive treatment. Wow, you're not alone. And
with men's health, with men's health, mental health anyway, in in crisis
mode, we should be talking aboutit and doing things rather than sweeping it

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all under the rug. Any thoughts, Well, I have a question because
I don't want to, you know, woman, explain anything. You guys
are the men in the room.What is something that people can do for
you or just ask you to helpsupport you as far as mental health goes.
May I answer that please stop assuming, stop assuming that all is fine.
Well, Elvis never complains about beingsad. Well yeah, okay,

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he never talks about, you know, needing someone to talk to. Okay.
Never assume that just because something's leftunsaid that there's no problem. I
think men in general need to takebetter care of themselves with a lot of
things, because I agree how manytimes you hear a guy like go to
the doctor and just check anything orget a physical or like, oh my

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finger's broken, that's okay. Ihave nine others like this is just like
you guys don't like you don't takecare of yourself the way I feel like
a lot of times you need to. And I don't know is that just
a guy mentality? It can be, you know, And I learned a
long time ago from friends who waitedtoo long and then paid the price on
different things. You got to getahead of it. And that's but see,

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you got to not only in painin your chest or a pain in
your head, and also mentally ifyou feel like you're in that ditch.
And it's hard to describe, youknow how it is when you're going through
a depression or sadness. It's hardto like, okay, Well, ups
and downs, that's life, youknow, and you brush it off.

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Well, you can see a pattern, and you can see how things are
eating away at you. And maybeyou've been denying at least considering getting help.
I don't know, Froggy, whatdo you think? No? I
agree. A lot of times,when you are having a date that's not
great, you say to yourself,well, tomorrow will be better. And
then when tomorrow's not better, youthink maybe the next day will be better,
and it's not, and you caneasily fall into that, to that

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ditch. But I think also Gonniewas asking what can you do, and
it's being a good friend and listeningand not always being so quick to give
your advice, but maybe just beingsomebody that will listen, because you don't
always want to be told what todo or here's what you're doing wrong,
but you just want somebody to listenand be a friend. There you go.
So all this month, from timeto time, you'll hear us talking

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about it, and that's god itWe only devote a month out of the
year for this. It should beyear round. I mean everything, everything
that has a month deserves an entireyear, I think, and this is
one of them. So there yougo. Another thing, which is it
sad but makes me smile. UncleJohnny. It was one month ago today

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that Uncle Johnny passed away. Wow, and it you know how it is
when you lose someone that's dear toyou, You never ever stop being sad
and you never stop missing them.But the grief does evolve into different different
shades of grief. Do you understandwhat I'm saying? Yeah? Absolutely,
Like how many years ago, didyour father passed away? Danielle Gosh,
twenty nineteen, So what is that? Three four five? I always lose

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count, but it's been yeah,but it was before the pandemic. Yeah,
he passed November, and then thepandemic hit March of twenty twenty.
And I am so convinced that Goddid him a favor with that because he
would have died by himself in thehospital. He would have you know,
he would have would have been Yeah, it would have been terrible. But

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look how your grief for your father, it's different now than it was a
year ago, two years ago.It evolves, It definitely, it evolved,
you know. And so with UncleJohnny, you know, it was
just just one of the saddest things, especially in my husband's life. But
now when I think of Johnny,I don't get sad. I just giggle
because he brought so much joy intoso many people's lives. It made us

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laugh. Not always, uh rarelydid he make us laugh on purpose.
It was just the way he was, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
that was the best. He wastotally oblivious to how funny he was.
But Uncle Johnny one month ago todayWow. And I know that Alex
is thinking about him, thinking hardabout him today, so uh, there

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you have it. So it's goodto look back on someone and even though
you're grieving and even though they're gone, it makes you smile. I think
that's the way they would want itto be.