Male Mental Health Podcast

“Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.” -Don Miguel Ruiz

"John Cacioppo, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Chicago actually measured the electrical output of the cerebral cortex to demonstrate that, across a variety of situations, negative information leads to a swift and outsize surge in activity. One hurt lingers longer than one compliment. Nevertheless, the ability to rapidly detect bad news and weight it so heavily, Cacioppo says, evolved for a very positive reason—to keep us out of harm's way.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201311/the-power-no [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201311/the-power-no]

This episode we spoke with a dear friend of mine Brian. The conversation covers his struggles with mental health, being admitted into a Behavioral Health Unit, and what he does to stay the course!

Alan watts, a writer and 20th century philosopher once wrote: “Why don’t you really know what you want? There are two reasons that you don’t really know what you want. Number one: you already have it. Number two: you don’t know yourself, because you never can. The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge, just as a knife doesn’t cut itself, fire doesn’t burn itself, light doesn’t illuminate itself.” To summarize… it's not your job to understand, know, and control everything. The sooner you accept and surrender to this… you are truly free.

Of the 15% of American adults who are both single and looking for a committed relationship or casual dates – most say they are dissatisfied with their dating lives and that it has been difficult to find people to date 67% percent of those American adults report dating is “Not going well” and 75% of that same population found it somewhat/very difficult to find people to date in the last year. -Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/nearly-half-of-u-s-adults-say-dating-has-gotten-harder-for-most-people-in-the-last-10-years/ [https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/nearly-half-of-u-s-adults-say-dating-has-gotten-harder-for-most-people-in-the-last-10-years/]https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/06/the-virtues-and-downsides-of-online-dating/ [https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/06/the-virtues-and-downsides-of-online-dating/]https://www.mind-your-reality.com/everyone-is-your-mirror.html [https://www.mind-your-reality.com/everyone-is-your-mirror.html]