Big Boys Do Cry—So Why Don’t We Talk About It?

Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. Welcome to High Performance, one of our regular episodes where we reflect on some of the guests who've joined us over the past few months and we talk about a topic that we believe Needs to be spoken about. Damien's here with me. Hey Damien. Hey Jake, how are you? Good thanks. So today we're going to discuss male mental health and ask the question. Do big boys cry? There is so much talk about improvements and progress when it comes to encouraging men to open up. But we also know we are nowhere near solving the problem. We know many men listen to this show. Hi, nice to have you with us. If you're one of them, or even if you're not,

You need to know the stats. Men are less likely than women to go to college. Men are less likely than women to buy a house. And then are far less likely to open up. Men make up fifty percent of the population, but eighty percent of the suicides. Men are expected to be the strong ones that keep it all in.

Yet at the same time we criticize them. For not being vulnerable. And we know that so much of the trauma and so much of the pain that men are suffering from It's about them being unable. to share what is going on inside them.

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