June 3, 2024 • 6 mins
We acknowledge the importance of your mental health and it is the one month anniversary of Uncle Johnnys passing.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh. Yes, June is Pride month. It's also Men's Mental
Health Awareness Month, and that's so important. I mean everyone's
mental health is very important. Yeah, the thing is about men.
Men typically do not open up as much as women
(00:25):
typically as far as how they're feeling, they're what they're
feeling and that kind of thing. So June is Men's
Mental Health Awareness Month. I mean, every year, one out
of four of us 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. In this month,
I mean, it's a good month to break break that stigma.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you think it's because men feel like they have
to be manly and menal so we have to take
care of everybody, and so you have to take care
of everybody. Then you don't feel like, you know, you
can show that side.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Of you, you think, sort of a machismo thing. Yeah. Yeah,
I don't know, because I'm not that way, but I
know i'd send to squelch how I 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
(01:22):
percent of men have never spoken to anyone about their
mental health. WHOA, that's almost half. Yeah, one in ten
men experience depression or anxiety, and that's less than in
less than half of them ever receive treatment. Wow, you're
not alone and with men's healthed, with men's health, mental
(01:45):
health anyway, in in crisis mode, we should be talking
about it and doing things rather than sweeping it all
under the rug. Any thoughts, Well, I have a question,
because I don't want to, you know, woman, explain anything.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You guys are the men in the room.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What is something that people.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Can do for you or just ask you to help
support you as.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Far as mental health goes. May I answer that please
stop assuming stop stop assuming that all is fine. Well,
Elvis never complains about being sad. Well yeah, okay, he
never talks about, you know, needing someone to talk to. Okay.
Never assume that just because something's left unsaid that there's
(02:25):
no problem.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think men in general need to take better care
of themselves with a lot of things. Because I agree
how many times you hear a guy like go to
the doctor and just check anything or get a physical
or like, oh my finger's broken, that's okay. I have
nine others like this is just like you guys don't
like you don't take care of yourself the way I
feel like a lot of times you need to. And
(02:48):
I don't know is that just a guy mentality?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It can be, you know, And I learned a long
time ago from friends who waited too long and then
paid the price on different things. You got to get
ahead of it's but see, you got to not only
in pain in your chest or a pain in your head,
and also mentally if you feel like you're in that ditch.
(03:11):
And it's hard to describe, you know how it is
when you're going through a depression or sadness. It's hard
to like, okay, Well, ups and downs, that's life, you know,
and you brush it off. Well, you can see a pattern,
and you can see how things are eating away at you.
And maybe you've been denying at least considering getting help.
I don't know, Froggy, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
No? I agree. A lot of times when you are
having a day that's not great, you say to yourself, well,
tomorrow will be better. And then when tomorrow's not better.
You think maybe the next day will be better, and
it's not, and you can easily fall into that, to
that ditch. But I think also Gonnie was asking what
can you do? And it's being a good friend and
listening and not always being so quick to give your advice,
(03:53):
but maybe just being somebody that will listen, because you
don't always want to be told what to do or
here's what you're doing wrong, but you just want somebody
to listen and be a friend. There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So all this month, from time to time, you'll hear
us talking about it, and that's god it We only
devote a month out of the year for this. It
should be year round. I mean everything, everything that has
a month deserves an entire year, I think, and this
is one of them. So there you go. Another thing,
which is it sad but makes me smile. Uncle Johnny.
(04:25):
It was one month ago today that Uncle Johnny passed away. Wow,
and it you know how it is when you lose
someone that's dear to you, 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
understand what I'm saying, yeah, absolutely, Like, how many years
(04:46):
ago did your father passed away, Danielle.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Gosh, twenty nineteen, So what is that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Three?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Four five? I always lose count, but.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's been yeah, but it was before the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, he passed November, and then the pandemic hit March
of twenty twenty. And I am so convinced that God
did him a favor with that because he would have
died by himself in the hospital. He would have you know,
he would have would have been Yeah, it would have
been terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But look how your grief for your father, it's different
now than it was a year ago, two years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It evolves. It definitely evolved, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And so with Uncle Johnny, 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 into
so many people's lives. It made us laugh. Not always,
uh rarely did he make us laugh on purpose. It
(05:41):
was just the way he was, you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
that's the best. He was totally oblivious to how funny
he was. But Uncle Johnny one month ago today. Wow.
And I know that Alex is thinking about him, thinking
hard about him today, so uh. And there you have it.
So it's good to look back on someone and even
(06:03):
though you're grieving and even though they're gone, it makes
you smile. I think that's the way they would want
it to be.
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh. Yes, June is Pride month. It's also Men's Mental
Health Awareness Month, and that's so important. I mean everyone's
mental health is very important. Yeah, the thing is about men.
Men typically do not open up as much as women
(00:25):
typically as far as how they're feeling, they're what they're
feeling and that kind of thing. So June is Men's
Mental Health Awareness Month. I mean, every year, one out
of four of us 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. In this month,
I mean, it's a good month to break break that stigma.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Do you think it's because men feel like they have
to be manly and menal so we have to take
care of everybody, and so you have to take care
of everybody. Then you don't feel like, you know, you
can show that side.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Of you, you think, sort of a machismo thing. Yeah. Yeah,
I don't know, because I'm not that way, but I
know i'd send to squelch how I 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
(01:22):
percent of men have never spoken to anyone about their
mental health. WHOA, that's almost half. Yeah, one in ten
men experience depression or anxiety, and that's less than in
less than half of them ever receive treatment. Wow, you're
not alone and with men's healthed, with men's health, mental
(01:45):
health anyway, in in crisis mode, we should be talking
about it and doing things rather than sweeping it all
under the rug. Any thoughts, Well, I have a question,
because I don't want to, you know, woman, explain anything.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You guys are the men in the room.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
What is something that people.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Can do for you or just ask you to help
support you as.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Far as mental health goes. May I answer that please
stop assuming stop stop assuming that all is fine. Well,
Elvis never complains about being sad. Well yeah, okay, he
never talks about, you know, needing someone to talk to. Okay.
Never assume that just because something's left unsaid that there's
(02:25):
no problem.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think men in general need to take better care
of themselves with a lot of things. Because I agree
how many times you hear a guy like go to
the doctor and just check anything or get a physical
or like, oh my finger's broken, that's okay. I have
nine others like this is just like you guys don't
like you don't take care of yourself the way I
feel like a lot of times you need to. And
(02:48):
I don't know is that just a guy mentality?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It can be, you know, And I learned a long
time ago from friends who waited too long and then
paid the price on different things. You got to get
ahead of it's but see, you got to not only
in pain in your chest or a pain in your head,
and also mentally if you feel like you're in that ditch.
(03:11):
And it's hard to describe, you know how it is
when you're going through a depression or sadness. It's hard
to like, okay, Well, ups and downs, that's life, you know,
and you brush it off. Well, you can see a pattern,
and you can see how things are eating away at you.
And maybe you've been denying at least considering getting help.
I don't know, Froggy, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
No? I agree. A lot of times when you are
having a day that's not great, you say to yourself, well,
tomorrow will be better. And then when tomorrow's not better.
You think maybe the next day will be better, and
it's not, and you can easily fall into that, to
that ditch. But I think also Gonnie was asking what
can you do? And it's being a good friend and
listening and not always being so quick to give your advice,
(03:53):
but maybe just being somebody that will listen, because you
don't always want to be told what to do or
here's what you're doing wrong, but you just want somebody
to listen and be a friend. There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So all this month, from time to time, you'll hear
us talking about it, and that's god it We only
devote a month out of the year for this. It
should be year round. I mean everything, everything that has
a month deserves an entire year, I think, and this
is one of them. So there you go. Another thing,
which is it sad but makes me smile. Uncle Johnny.
(04:25):
It was one month ago today that Uncle Johnny passed away. Wow,
and it you know how it is when you lose
someone that's dear to you, 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
understand what I'm saying, yeah, absolutely, Like, how many years
(04:46):
ago did your father passed away, Danielle.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Gosh, twenty nineteen, So what is that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Three?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Four five? I always lose count, but.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's been yeah, but it was before the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, he passed November, and then the pandemic hit March
of twenty twenty. And I am so convinced that God
did him a favor with that because he would have
died by himself in the hospital. He would have you know,
he would have would have been Yeah, it would have
been terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
But look how your grief for your father, it's different
now than it was a year ago, two years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
It evolves. It definitely evolved, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And so with Uncle Johnny, 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 into
so many people's lives. It made us laugh. Not always,
uh rarely did he make us laugh on purpose. It
(05:41):
was just the way he was, you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
that's the best. He was totally oblivious to how funny
he was. But Uncle Johnny one month ago today. Wow.
And I know that Alex is thinking about him, thinking
hard about him today, so uh. And there you have it.
So it's good to look back on someone and even
(06:03):
though you're grieving and even though they're gone, it makes
you smile. I think that's the way they would want
it to be.
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