June 12, 2025 • 22 mins
This season, I continue sharing open and honest stories about my mental health journey—past struggles, present challenges, and the tools I've discovered to create a more fulfilling life.
In this week's episode, I dive into how depression has recently crept back into my life and, more importantly, the steps I'm taking to shift the tide. Join me as I navigate the highs and lows with transparency, insight, and a commitment to finding light in the darkness.
In this week's episode, I dive into how depression has recently crept back into my life and, more importantly, the steps I'm taking to shift the tide. Join me as I navigate the highs and lows with transparency, insight, and a commitment to finding light in the darkness.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to My Mental health Breakdown podcast, episode one of
season two. It is called back to Basics. Hello everybody,
my name is Frank, and thank you for joining me
on my mental health journey. I can't believe it's been
(00:38):
five years since season one was released. Five years ago,
during the pandemic, when there was a time of uncertainty,
I decided to share my story because a lot of
folks during that time were struggling and I wanted to
share the stuff that I was going through, how I
(01:02):
overcome some of those struggles, and I really wanted to
let people know it's all going to be okay. I
can't believe it. Five years ago, five years ago, I
(01:23):
decided to embark on this journey to be very transparent
and very open and share my mental health struggles of anxiety, depression,
ocd anger also with ADHD and autism, and to share
those to let people know you are not the only
(01:45):
one going through everything, and you will be okay. Trust me,
you will be okay. So season two, Season two is
going to focus on my current mental health struggle and
what I'm doing, tips tricks, some things I've learned, and
how I cope with being a dad A husband, a
(02:09):
guy who has to work every day. Five years ago
was a different story. Five years ago. I look back.
My son who's turning nine this week, was only four
years old. My daughter who just had a birthday in
March with eleven and now she's six. My wife and
I were only married for thirteen years and now we
(02:30):
are married for eighteen. Five years ago, I was in
a different work environment. So a lot has changed. But
the one thing that has been constant is mental health
is here to stay. But I am here to tell
you without a shadow of a doubt, and if you
need to look at anybody to get through those tough times,
(02:54):
please look at me, because my story talks about those stories,
talks about what I am currently going through and how
I am using some of the things I've learned along
the way. I'd like to start out by reading something
that my son's therapist shared and it resonated with the
(03:19):
whole family, and she said, a good day is when
everything goes as plan and all our anxiety and worries
don't affect our day. A great day is when these
things do, but when we use our skills to work
through them and have a successful day. And that is
(03:44):
so true, so true, because we're gonna have bad days,
We're gonna have good days. But when we have those
bad days, if we push all that negativity down, if
we use the things we learn through therapy, if we
take the right medication, it will be oh okay, it
(04:11):
will be okay, it will be okay. I invite you
to listen to season one. Please do I think it's
about five, five or six I was. I can't remember,
but take a listen and you'll hear some of the
struggles I had during that time, what I went through
as a child to an adult, and you'll hear that
(04:33):
the one main theme, the overarching theme for everything is
it doesn't go away, but it does get better. And
you will have those good days, and you will have
those bad days, but trust me, trust me, it gets better.
(04:53):
This is Men's Health Mental Health Awareness Month, and here
are some stats that I I was able to pull up.
In twenty twenty three. Among US men's age eighteen and older,
nineteen percent experience a mental health illness, twenty one point
four dealt with a substance use disorder, and forty five
(05:15):
point nine receive treatment in the past year. Now, this
podcast is going to cover a lot of topics of
how I am going through being a man who's married,
a man who is working, a man who's a dad,
who's a husband. Because you know, as a as a
(05:40):
man and as a guy and as a dude, we've
always been taught right to be strong, to always provide,
and sometimes sometimes it's okay to not be strong or
be the one that provides, or have a day, you know,
or or or a time where you cry. It is okay.
(06:03):
And I think that men are always taught to be
tough and to be you know, uh be strong and
and and all those things, but it is okay to
not be okay, It's okay, It's okay. So I want
to start by sharing a story. Okay, very transparent. Like
(06:24):
I said, the podcast is very transparent, and I wanted
to share with everyone this story so before before I
had a near death experience. It's called the radio teas.
And for those who are in radio or or or
why listening to you know your radio at FM, a
little bit of radio teas. I was going through some
(06:49):
not so good moments and I thought, oh, maybe it's
because it's the winner. Maybe it's because not that they
know the sun is not shining. Maybe I have seasonal
depression and and all that. I was feeling these moments
and it would come in. I would have a moment
where I just wanted to cry, and yeah, it was.
It wasn't a good feeling. It wasn't a good feeling
(07:10):
at all. But going through depression before not as strong.
It was really more heavy on anxiety, OCD, racing thoughts
and those types of things. I just thought, Okay, well,
maybe it's just seasonal, seasonal depression or whatnot. So that
picked up. That picked up, and in between, I, who
(07:30):
am a diabetic, had very very high sugars and it
was very very very sick, very sick, very sick, and
to the point where it was a near death experience.
I was in the ICU. It didn't look good. My
(07:51):
organs were shutting down. But but with the positivity of
keep telling myself, I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna fight for
my wife, I'm gonna fight for my kiddos, I'm going
to fight for my family, fight for my friends, I
(08:11):
am going to fight. And with that said, three days later,
even though I was still sick, I was released. And
what I mean by that is still sick, meaning I
was okay to go home, but I wasn't feeling great.
I was still nauseous, you know, some of those after
effects of being in the hospital, right. And the one
(08:32):
thing I overlooked was the mental state. And I'm usually
pretty good about, you know, combining that with any kind
of health journey that I go on. And I'm a
fat guy. Let's just be honest, I'm a fat guy.
So I've been on these, you know, health journeys all
the time. And every time I would say, oh hey,
I'm gonna joy to weight watchers, or I would go
out there and run six miles, which I never did,
and those types of things, you know, I would always
(08:54):
include mental health and there I'm okay, I'm gonna do this,
but I'm also gonna make sure my mental health is
not gone away. And being in the hospital and having
almost that near death experience, I really focused on more
of the physical health, right, and I didn't think about
the mental health, and I didn't think about you know too.
(09:16):
Maybe two months every week there was a moment where
I was not feeling great. Right. So when I got
out of the hospital, for the first few days it
was okay, it was good, and then it got really bad,
and I'm here to share that the last three weeks,
(09:38):
maybe even four, maybe even longer, I was in a
very very rough patch, very rough patch. I think a
lot of times we think of depression as something that
you know, you're sad, you don't want to get out
of bed, and those are true. But the one thing
(09:59):
that I was experiencing was I didn't want my day
to go on. I really did not want my day
to go on. And I really did not want to
have a deal with anything. I was extremely irritable, quick fuse,
I was Besides that, there were those moments where I
(10:21):
was crying, not to the point where I wanted to
get out, kno, get out of bed, but I just
did not want to do any kind of responsibility. And
I'm being very transparent here. I didn't want to work.
I didn't want to you know, I wanted to be
a dad, I wanted to be a husband, but I
just didn't not want to be And I know that
(10:42):
doesn't make much sense, but I just did not want
to fight anymore. And this Frank right here, he's a fighter,
He's a he's a real big fighter. I just did
not did not have it and I kept telling myself
over and over when something would go wrong. This was
quote that I recommend never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever
(11:03):
ever using I need a fucking win. I need a
fucking win. Never say that, because what that does is
And now I realize it, because the last week has
been pretty good, and I'll share some of that here
in a second. I've realized that by saying that, I
(11:23):
was focusing on all the negative things that happened, and
I wasn't focusing on anything that was positive. And those
positive things did not have to be only in my life.
But I should have reached out and looked a little
bit better into you know, my daughter where she's got
a good grade on a test, or if you know
my wife's sc store was really picking up, or even
(11:46):
if I you know, because after a while, let's be honest,
after a while, if you keep saying, well, I survive life,
you know you're repeating that over and over. Sometimes that
goes a little dry, right, you need something new to
focus on. But if I focus on everything else, and
then I focused on the small stuff, like hey, I
got up and I wasn't nauseous those things and I
didn't I focused on all the negative stuff and all
(12:07):
the all the negative stuff. And for the last you know,
three to four weeks, it was really bad. It wasn't
bad every day, but it was bad every other day,
and it was just on a horrible, horrible pattern, horrible pattern.
(12:28):
It was just the the constant of I'd like to
I like to gamble a little bit. I like to gamble, right,
And if I would lose, I'd be like, well, so
you know, another wind, or if I would like And
at that time I think my shirt had a hole
in I'm like, oh so you no, they're not, they're
win my should my shirt has a hole in it.
So three weeks were bad, and now this week and
(12:51):
a little bit of the previous week, things have gotten
immensely better. Men's the better. And I've always said, I
always say this to him. If you can go out
the year right, and you could say I've had this
amount of good days and this amount of bad days,
and of the good days outshine the bad days, then
you can tell yourself, wow, I had a pretty good year.
(13:11):
Now there are some years with some of those bad
days are gonna outshine how many good days you had.
And that is okay too. Just check it up for
a bad year. But here's what I've done to get
myself out of this funk, to get myself back on track.
So the first thing I did was I started erasing
(13:35):
that theory, that theory of I need a win, blah
blah blah, I need a win. No. I try to
look at any type of positivity and any type of win,
big or small, that I could And I've had several, okay,
(13:56):
meaning like my kids are done with school, my son's
birthdays coming up to me. Those are those are wins.
Those are great things that are happening. I look at
you know, I had a great anniversary lunch with my
beautiful wife. Through all the bad stuff, all the crap,
all the shit that's gone through, she has stuck by me.
(14:19):
And that's another thing. Support. We gotta find your support system,
and if you don't have anybody, I'll be your support system.
I love getting emails and I'm an introvert, okay, but
I love getting emails. I love sharing my story with people.
I love giving them the positive advice and the positive vibes.
(14:42):
But you gotta find your support system. And then other
things that I've been doing. So I've got my meds
in order. I've got a good schedule of what my
meds are. I'm on Lexapro, I'm on bosporn, I do
have I do have Xanax that I take every so often.
(15:04):
And I'll be honest, the last three weeks, last four weeks,
it was almost every other day occurrence with the xanax,
and it was it was that bad. And before I
forget irritability, it is shown that a lot of it
for depression is in men, right, so that but that
does not mean it can't affect anybody across across any
(15:26):
type of sex, but as men, a lot of times
air ability is one of those depression keys. And then
also I've learned too sometimes when you get out of
the hospital, you do so have some of that depression
as well. So anybody who that's in the hospital and
is maybe feeling this newfound depression or any or anything
to that extent, that's something also I learned. I also
learned to breathe a little bit. I don't do a
(15:47):
great job at breathing. I think I may have shared
this on the last season. I don't do a good
job at breathing, But I've been doing better now with
everything last few weeks, I've been doing some journaling again.
I have to get more consistent on there. And I
usually and I'll share this on the social channels because
(16:09):
this is a great, great journal that I have for somebody,
especially that has ADHD or autism and some of that
focus may not be there. I take the journal and
they asked three goals for the day. You know, what
was a win? What can I do better on? Who's like?
Who's what's my affirmation? You know what is you know?
(16:30):
Who am I? Who's my who am I? Fighting? For?
Those types of things, And then asked a little bit
of a more more long, more long winded, we'll say
question and answer, right, like give you a quote and
ask you, okay, what are you know two things you
could do or three things you can do today to
stop blah blah blah. And you don't have to fill
that part out if you don't want, but it gives
you kind of some of those things, right, And like
(16:52):
I was saying, affirmation right. So the other thing I've
been doing is I've been pushing all that negative stuff down.
I've been pushing down the fact of hey, you know,
I'm no if it's something about work, no, no, no,
like immediately when a negative thought or an anxious thought
comes in. I've been trying to say no, no, no,
no no. Now. Honestly, it's not going to work all
(17:13):
the time, right because some days you're tired and some
days you're just you're just having a rough go. But
I just tell it no, I say no, no no.
Other tricks that I've learned is sometimes you can have
a imagine a stop sign popping your head. A lot
of times I can see the negative thought on a
dirty car windshield and I see, like, you know, a
(17:36):
hose going over there washing it. You can do whatever
works for you. Some people just did not work for me.
But some people like to write down all their negative
thoughts and just throw the paper away because he gets
it out of your brain. I'm a little bit. I
don't want to say I'm a hoarder, but I'm a
little bit. I like to keep everything. So that wouldn't
work for me. You know, I would fight it into
(17:57):
my trash and I would reworry. So that's something I
don't do. One thing that I need to get better
on is definitely walking. I've noticed that sometimes walking that
it releases so many endorphins and I know for me
especially you don't being a big guy, I really don't
want to walk, but also for not only mental but
for physical health, just getting out there and the fresh air.
And then one thing that I do, and this is
(18:20):
one tip and trick that I do, is I love
listening to music. I love singing out loud, I love dancing.
I know my poor neighbors, I feel bad that they
have to put up with that. I feel bad that
my family has to put up with it. But I
can tell you if I'm singing and dancing, my family knows, Wow,
(18:40):
Dad's in a good mood, and it just puts me
in a good mood. Find your favorite tunes and belt
them out, dance and just really get your vibes vibes
headed in the right direction. So this podcast, season two,
it's going to focus on anxiety. It's going to focus
on some of that ADHD and autism, some of the depression.
(19:02):
I'm talking about, some of the OCD and everything else
in between, and how I get through being a husband,
a dad and also working. You know, I think a
lot of people fail to realize that, you know, just
your everyday family life or your everyday work life, some
(19:23):
of that stress is not good on the old brain.
It's not good on the brain, right, and that sometimes
is the match that lights the fire for your other
mental health stuff, right, you know, whether it's irritability, whether
it's depression, whether it's anxious or OCD. So I'm going
to talk about some of the things that I'm doing
to go to go through those as well, and I'm
(19:45):
really going to be transparent. And there might be some
weeks where it is not good. There might be some
weeks where the depression has crept back in very bad
I'm having a bad week week, I'm being anxious or
OCD because my clothes aren't fitting right or un bloated
or things like that. So I'm going to be very
very very transparent, and hopefully my transparency will really, you know,
(20:12):
like I was saying earlier, you'll go back and say
it's going to be okay. And also, like I was saying,
I'm here to answer any questions, to assist in pointing
you in some in some of the right directions, meaning
if you need some advice on therapy, what types of therapy,
(20:36):
you know, those things, you know, if there is a
motivational quotes or journals or stuff like that. I am
here to provide it. You can always email me My
Mental Health Breakdown at gmail dot com. It's My Mental
Health Breakdown at gmail dot com. The podcast is gonna
(20:56):
be released every Thursday. There are are five episodes in total.
I really thank you for listening, and really please it's
gonna be okay. Mental health does not go away. Unfortunately,
it does not go away. It's one not one of
these things that we can wake up and say, oh
we're cured and go on. But there are ways where
(21:20):
we can still have a very very meaningful life, a
very productive life. And it's a tips, it's the tricks,
it's a support systems, those affirmations, it's listening to the
music and dancing or whatever you find that makes you happy.
I will see you guys back here next week. Have
a good rest of your week, and if you need anything,
(21:42):
My Mental Health Breakdown at gmail dot com. Have a
good one, everybody. I'll talk to you soon. St
Welcome to My Mental health Breakdown podcast, episode one of
season two. It is called back to Basics. Hello everybody,
my name is Frank, and thank you for joining me
on my mental health journey. I can't believe it's been
(00:38):
five years since season one was released. Five years ago,
during the pandemic, when there was a time of uncertainty,
I decided to share my story because a lot of
folks during that time were struggling and I wanted to
share the stuff that I was going through, how I
(01:02):
overcome some of those struggles, and I really wanted to
let people know it's all going to be okay. I
can't believe it. Five years ago, five years ago, I
(01:23):
decided to embark on this journey to be very transparent
and very open and share my mental health struggles of anxiety, depression,
ocd anger also with ADHD and autism, and to share
those to let people know you are not the only
(01:45):
one going through everything, and you will be okay. Trust me,
you will be okay. So season two, Season two is
going to focus on my current mental health struggle and
what I'm doing, tips tricks, some things I've learned, and
how I cope with being a dad A husband, a
(02:09):
guy who has to work every day. Five years ago
was a different story. Five years ago. I look back.
My son who's turning nine this week, was only four
years old. My daughter who just had a birthday in
March with eleven and now she's six. My wife and
I were only married for thirteen years and now we
(02:30):
are married for eighteen. Five years ago, I was in
a different work environment. So a lot has changed. But
the one thing that has been constant is mental health
is here to stay. But I am here to tell
you without a shadow of a doubt, and if you
need to look at anybody to get through those tough times,
(02:54):
please look at me, because my story talks about those stories,
talks about what I am currently going through and how
I am using some of the things I've learned along
the way. I'd like to start out by reading something
that my son's therapist shared and it resonated with the
(03:19):
whole family, and she said, a good day is when
everything goes as plan and all our anxiety and worries
don't affect our day. A great day is when these
things do, but when we use our skills to work
through them and have a successful day. And that is
(03:44):
so true, so true, because we're gonna have bad days,
We're gonna have good days. But when we have those
bad days, if we push all that negativity down, if
we use the things we learn through therapy, if we
take the right medication, it will be oh okay, it
(04:11):
will be okay, it will be okay. I invite you
to listen to season one. Please do I think it's
about five, five or six I was. I can't remember,
but take a listen and you'll hear some of the
struggles I had during that time, what I went through
as a child to an adult, and you'll hear that
(04:33):
the one main theme, the overarching theme for everything is
it doesn't go away, but it does get better. And
you will have those good days, and you will have
those bad days, but trust me, trust me, it gets better.
(04:53):
This is Men's Health Mental Health Awareness Month, and here
are some stats that I I was able to pull up.
In twenty twenty three. Among US men's age eighteen and older,
nineteen percent experience a mental health illness, twenty one point
four dealt with a substance use disorder, and forty five
(05:15):
point nine receive treatment in the past year. Now, this
podcast is going to cover a lot of topics of
how I am going through being a man who's married,
a man who is working, a man who's a dad,
who's a husband. Because you know, as a as a
(05:40):
man and as a guy and as a dude, we've
always been taught right to be strong, to always provide,
and sometimes sometimes it's okay to not be strong or
be the one that provides, or have a day, you know,
or or or a time where you cry. It is okay.
(06:03):
And I think that men are always taught to be
tough and to be you know, uh be strong and
and and all those things, but it is okay to
not be okay, It's okay, It's okay. So I want
to start by sharing a story. Okay, very transparent. Like
(06:24):
I said, the podcast is very transparent, and I wanted
to share with everyone this story so before before I
had a near death experience. It's called the radio teas.
And for those who are in radio or or or
why listening to you know your radio at FM, a
little bit of radio teas. I was going through some
(06:49):
not so good moments and I thought, oh, maybe it's
because it's the winner. Maybe it's because not that they
know the sun is not shining. Maybe I have seasonal
depression and and all that. I was feeling these moments
and it would come in. I would have a moment
where I just wanted to cry, and yeah, it was.
It wasn't a good feeling. It wasn't a good feeling
(07:10):
at all. But going through depression before not as strong.
It was really more heavy on anxiety, OCD, racing thoughts
and those types of things. I just thought, Okay, well,
maybe it's just seasonal, seasonal depression or whatnot. So that
picked up. That picked up, and in between, I, who
(07:30):
am a diabetic, had very very high sugars and it
was very very very sick, very sick, very sick, and
to the point where it was a near death experience.
I was in the ICU. It didn't look good. My
(07:51):
organs were shutting down. But but with the positivity of
keep telling myself, I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna fight for
my wife, I'm gonna fight for my kiddos, I'm going
to fight for my family, fight for my friends, I
(08:11):
am going to fight. And with that said, three days later,
even though I was still sick, I was released. And
what I mean by that is still sick, meaning I
was okay to go home, but I wasn't feeling great.
I was still nauseous, you know, some of those after
effects of being in the hospital, right. And the one
(08:32):
thing I overlooked was the mental state. And I'm usually
pretty good about, you know, combining that with any kind
of health journey that I go on. And I'm a
fat guy. Let's just be honest, I'm a fat guy.
So I've been on these, you know, health journeys all
the time. And every time I would say, oh hey,
I'm gonna joy to weight watchers, or I would go
out there and run six miles, which I never did,
and those types of things, you know, I would always
(08:54):
include mental health and there I'm okay, I'm gonna do this,
but I'm also gonna make sure my mental health is
not gone away. And being in the hospital and having
almost that near death experience, I really focused on more
of the physical health, right, and I didn't think about
the mental health, and I didn't think about you know too.
(09:16):
Maybe two months every week there was a moment where
I was not feeling great. Right. So when I got
out of the hospital, for the first few days it
was okay, it was good, and then it got really bad,
and I'm here to share that the last three weeks,
(09:38):
maybe even four, maybe even longer, I was in a
very very rough patch, very rough patch. I think a
lot of times we think of depression as something that
you know, you're sad, you don't want to get out
of bed, and those are true. But the one thing
(09:59):
that I was experiencing was I didn't want my day
to go on. I really did not want my day
to go on. And I really did not want to
have a deal with anything. I was extremely irritable, quick fuse,
I was Besides that, there were those moments where I
(10:21):
was crying, not to the point where I wanted to
get out, kno, get out of bed, but I just
did not want to do any kind of responsibility. And
I'm being very transparent here. I didn't want to work.
I didn't want to you know, I wanted to be
a dad, I wanted to be a husband, but I
just didn't not want to be And I know that
(10:42):
doesn't make much sense, but I just did not want
to fight anymore. And this Frank right here, he's a fighter,
He's a he's a real big fighter. I just did
not did not have it and I kept telling myself
over and over when something would go wrong. This was
quote that I recommend never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever
(11:03):
ever using I need a fucking win. I need a
fucking win. Never say that, because what that does is
And now I realize it, because the last week has
been pretty good, and I'll share some of that here
in a second. I've realized that by saying that, I
(11:23):
was focusing on all the negative things that happened, and
I wasn't focusing on anything that was positive. And those
positive things did not have to be only in my life.
But I should have reached out and looked a little
bit better into you know, my daughter where she's got
a good grade on a test, or if you know
my wife's sc store was really picking up, or even
(11:46):
if I you know, because after a while, let's be honest,
after a while, if you keep saying, well, I survive life,
you know you're repeating that over and over. Sometimes that
goes a little dry, right, you need something new to
focus on. But if I focus on everything else, and
then I focused on the small stuff, like hey, I
got up and I wasn't nauseous those things and I
didn't I focused on all the negative stuff and all
(12:07):
the all the negative stuff. And for the last you know,
three to four weeks, it was really bad. It wasn't
bad every day, but it was bad every other day,
and it was just on a horrible, horrible pattern, horrible pattern.
(12:28):
It was just the the constant of I'd like to
I like to gamble a little bit. I like to gamble, right,
And if I would lose, I'd be like, well, so
you know, another wind, or if I would like And
at that time I think my shirt had a hole
in I'm like, oh so you no, they're not, they're
win my should my shirt has a hole in it.
So three weeks were bad, and now this week and
(12:51):
a little bit of the previous week, things have gotten
immensely better. Men's the better. And I've always said, I
always say this to him. If you can go out
the year right, and you could say I've had this
amount of good days and this amount of bad days,
and of the good days outshine the bad days, then
you can tell yourself, wow, I had a pretty good year.
(13:11):
Now there are some years with some of those bad
days are gonna outshine how many good days you had.
And that is okay too. Just check it up for
a bad year. But here's what I've done to get
myself out of this funk, to get myself back on track.
So the first thing I did was I started erasing
(13:35):
that theory, that theory of I need a win, blah
blah blah, I need a win. No. I try to
look at any type of positivity and any type of win,
big or small, that I could And I've had several, okay,
(13:56):
meaning like my kids are done with school, my son's
birthdays coming up to me. Those are those are wins.
Those are great things that are happening. I look at
you know, I had a great anniversary lunch with my
beautiful wife. Through all the bad stuff, all the crap,
all the shit that's gone through, she has stuck by me.
(14:19):
And that's another thing. Support. We gotta find your support system,
and if you don't have anybody, I'll be your support system.
I love getting emails and I'm an introvert, okay, but
I love getting emails. I love sharing my story with people.
I love giving them the positive advice and the positive vibes.
(14:42):
But you gotta find your support system. And then other
things that I've been doing. So I've got my meds
in order. I've got a good schedule of what my
meds are. I'm on Lexapro, I'm on bosporn, I do
have I do have Xanax that I take every so often.
(15:04):
And I'll be honest, the last three weeks, last four weeks,
it was almost every other day occurrence with the xanax,
and it was it was that bad. And before I
forget irritability, it is shown that a lot of it
for depression is in men, right, so that but that
does not mean it can't affect anybody across across any
(15:26):
type of sex, but as men, a lot of times
air ability is one of those depression keys. And then
also I've learned too sometimes when you get out of
the hospital, you do so have some of that depression
as well. So anybody who that's in the hospital and
is maybe feeling this newfound depression or any or anything
to that extent, that's something also I learned. I also
learned to breathe a little bit. I don't do a
(15:47):
great job at breathing. I think I may have shared
this on the last season. I don't do a good
job at breathing, But I've been doing better now with
everything last few weeks, I've been doing some journaling again.
I have to get more consistent on there. And I
usually and I'll share this on the social channels because
(16:09):
this is a great, great journal that I have for somebody,
especially that has ADHD or autism and some of that
focus may not be there. I take the journal and
they asked three goals for the day. You know, what
was a win? What can I do better on? Who's like?
Who's what's my affirmation? You know what is you know?
(16:30):
Who am I? Who's my who am I? Fighting? For?
Those types of things, And then asked a little bit
of a more more long, more long winded, we'll say
question and answer, right, like give you a quote and
ask you, okay, what are you know two things you
could do or three things you can do today to
stop blah blah blah. And you don't have to fill
that part out if you don't want, but it gives
you kind of some of those things, right, And like
(16:52):
I was saying, affirmation right. So the other thing I've
been doing is I've been pushing all that negative stuff down.
I've been pushing down the fact of hey, you know,
I'm no if it's something about work, no, no, no,
like immediately when a negative thought or an anxious thought
comes in. I've been trying to say no, no, no,
no no. Now. Honestly, it's not going to work all
(17:13):
the time, right because some days you're tired and some
days you're just you're just having a rough go. But
I just tell it no, I say no, no no.
Other tricks that I've learned is sometimes you can have
a imagine a stop sign popping your head. A lot
of times I can see the negative thought on a
dirty car windshield and I see, like, you know, a
(17:36):
hose going over there washing it. You can do whatever
works for you. Some people just did not work for me.
But some people like to write down all their negative
thoughts and just throw the paper away because he gets
it out of your brain. I'm a little bit. I
don't want to say I'm a hoarder, but I'm a
little bit. I like to keep everything. So that wouldn't
work for me. You know, I would fight it into
(17:57):
my trash and I would reworry. So that's something I
don't do. One thing that I need to get better
on is definitely walking. I've noticed that sometimes walking that
it releases so many endorphins and I know for me
especially you don't being a big guy, I really don't
want to walk, but also for not only mental but
for physical health, just getting out there and the fresh air.
And then one thing that I do, and this is
(18:20):
one tip and trick that I do, is I love
listening to music. I love singing out loud, I love dancing.
I know my poor neighbors, I feel bad that they
have to put up with that. I feel bad that
my family has to put up with it. But I
can tell you if I'm singing and dancing, my family knows, Wow,
(18:40):
Dad's in a good mood, and it just puts me
in a good mood. Find your favorite tunes and belt
them out, dance and just really get your vibes vibes
headed in the right direction. So this podcast, season two,
it's going to focus on anxiety. It's going to focus
on some of that ADHD and autism, some of the depression.
(19:02):
I'm talking about, some of the OCD and everything else
in between, and how I get through being a husband,
a dad and also working. You know, I think a
lot of people fail to realize that, you know, just
your everyday family life or your everyday work life, some
(19:23):
of that stress is not good on the old brain.
It's not good on the brain, right, and that sometimes
is the match that lights the fire for your other
mental health stuff, right, you know, whether it's irritability, whether
it's depression, whether it's anxious or OCD. So I'm going
to talk about some of the things that I'm doing
to go to go through those as well, and I'm
(19:45):
really going to be transparent. And there might be some
weeks where it is not good. There might be some
weeks where the depression has crept back in very bad
I'm having a bad week week, I'm being anxious or
OCD because my clothes aren't fitting right or un bloated
or things like that. So I'm going to be very
very very transparent, and hopefully my transparency will really, you know,
(20:12):
like I was saying earlier, you'll go back and say
it's going to be okay. And also, like I was saying,
I'm here to answer any questions, to assist in pointing
you in some in some of the right directions, meaning
if you need some advice on therapy, what types of therapy,
(20:36):
you know, those things, you know, if there is a
motivational quotes or journals or stuff like that. I am
here to provide it. You can always email me My
Mental Health Breakdown at gmail dot com. It's My Mental
Health Breakdown at gmail dot com. The podcast is gonna
(20:56):
be released every Thursday. There are are five episodes in total.
I really thank you for listening, and really please it's
gonna be okay. Mental health does not go away. Unfortunately,
it does not go away. It's one not one of
these things that we can wake up and say, oh
we're cured and go on. But there are ways where
(21:20):
we can still have a very very meaningful life, a
very productive life. And it's a tips, it's the tricks,
it's a support systems, those affirmations, it's listening to the
music and dancing or whatever you find that makes you happy.
I will see you guys back here next week. Have
a good rest of your week, and if you need anything,
(21:42):
My Mental Health Breakdown at gmail dot com. Have a
good one, everybody. I'll talk to you soon. St
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