1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,359 Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show. 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: Uh. Yes, June is Pride month. It's also Men's Mental 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: Health Awareness Month, and that's so important. I mean everyone's 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: mental health is very important. Yeah, the thing is about men. 5 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: Men typically do not open up as much as women 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: typically as far as how they're feeling, they're what they're 7 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: feeling and that kind of thing. So June is Men's 8 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 2: Mental Health Awareness Month. I mean, every year, one out 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 2: of four of us experienced some sort of mental health problem. 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 2: I think that's a low number, but a lot of 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 2: us fail to get help when it's needed. In this month, 12 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 2: I mean, it's a good month to break break that stigma. 13 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 3: You know. 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: Do you think it's because men feel like they have 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: to be manly and menal so we have to take 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: care of everybody, and so you have to take care 17 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: of everybody. Then you don't feel like, you know, you 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: can show that side. 19 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: Of you, you think, sort of a machismo thing. Yeah. Yeah, 20 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: I don't know, because I'm not that way, but I 21 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: know i'd send to squelch how I feel a lot 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: of the time. In the stats, men are four times 23 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 2: more likely to die from suicide. Wow, four times, making 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 2: it nearly eighty percent of all suicides in America. Forty 25 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 2: percent of men have never spoken to anyone about their 26 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: mental health. WHOA, that's almost half. Yeah, one in ten 27 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 2: men experience depression or anxiety, and that's less than in 28 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 2: less than half of them ever receive treatment. Wow, you're 29 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,839 Speaker 2: not alone and with men's healthed, with men's health, mental 30 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: health anyway, in in crisis mode, we should be talking 31 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: about it and doing things rather than sweeping it all 32 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: under the rug. Any thoughts, Well, I have a question, 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: because I don't want to, you know, woman, explain anything. 34 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: You guys are the men in the room. 35 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 2: What is something that people. 36 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: Can do for you or just ask you to help 37 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: support you as. 38 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: Far as mental health goes. May I answer that please 39 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: stop assuming stop stop assuming that all is fine. Well, 40 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 2: Elvis never complains about being sad. Well yeah, okay, he 41 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: never talks about, you know, needing someone to talk to. Okay. 42 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: Never assume that just because something's left unsaid that there's 43 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 2: no problem. 44 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: I think men in general need to take better care 45 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: of themselves with a lot of things. Because I agree 46 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: how many times you hear a guy like go to 47 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: the doctor and just check anything or get a physical 48 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: or like, oh my finger's broken, that's okay. I have 49 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: nine others like this is just like you guys don't 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: like you don't take care of yourself the way I 51 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: feel like a lot of times you need to. And 52 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: I don't know is that just a guy mentality? 53 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: It can be, you know, And I learned a long 54 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: time ago from friends who waited too long and then 55 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: paid the price on different things. You got to get 56 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: ahead of it's but see, you got to not only 57 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 2: in pain in your chest or a pain in your head, 58 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: and also mentally if you feel like you're in that ditch. 59 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: And it's hard to describe, you know how it is 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: when you're going through a depression or sadness. It's hard 61 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: to like, okay, Well, ups and downs, that's life, you know, 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 2: and you brush it off. Well, you can see a pattern, 63 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 2: and you can see how things are eating away at you. 64 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 2: And maybe you've been denying at least considering getting help. 65 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: I don't know, Froggy, what do you think? 66 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 3: No? I agree. A lot of times when you are 67 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: having a day that's not great, you say to yourself, well, 68 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 3: tomorrow will be better. And then when tomorrow's not better. 69 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 3: You think maybe the next day will be better, and 70 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 3: it's not, and you can easily fall into that, to 71 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 3: that ditch. But I think also Gonnie was asking what 72 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 3: can you do? And it's being a good friend and 73 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: listening and not always being so quick to give your advice, 74 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: but maybe just being somebody that will listen, because you 75 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 3: don't always want to be told what to do or 76 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 3: here's what you're doing wrong, but you just want somebody 77 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 3: to listen and be a friend. There you go. 78 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 2: So all this month, from time to time, you'll hear 79 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 2: us talking about it, and that's god it We only 80 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: devote a month out of the year for this. It 81 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: should be year round. I mean everything, everything that has 82 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 2: a month deserves an entire year, I think, and this 83 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: is one of them. So there you go. Another thing, 84 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: which is it sad but makes me smile. Uncle Johnny. 85 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 2: It was one month ago today that Uncle Johnny passed away. Wow, 86 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 2: and it you know how it is when you lose 87 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 2: someone that's dear to you, You never ever stop being 88 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 2: sad and you never stop missing them. But the grief 89 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: does evolve into different different shades of grief. Do you 90 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying, yeah, absolutely, Like, how many years 91 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: ago did your father passed away, Danielle. 92 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: Gosh, twenty nineteen, So what is that? 93 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 2: Three? 94 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: Four five? I always lose count, but. 95 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 3: It's been yeah, but it was before the pandemic. 96 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, he passed November, and then the pandemic hit March 97 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,559 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. And I am so convinced that God 98 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: did him a favor with that because he would have 99 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: died by himself in the hospital. He would have you know, 100 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: he would have would have been Yeah, it would have 101 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: been terrible. 102 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 2: But look how your grief for your father, it's different 103 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 2: now than it was a year ago, two years ago. 104 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: It evolves. It definitely evolved, you know. 105 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,119 Speaker 2: And so with Uncle Johnny, you know, it was just 106 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 2: just one of the saddest things, especially in my husband's life. 107 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 2: But now when I think of Johnny, I don't get sad. 108 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: I just giggle because he brought so much joy into 109 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 2: so many people's lives. It made us laugh. Not always, 110 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: uh rarely did he make us laugh on purpose. It 111 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: was just the way he was, you know what I'm saying, Yeah, 112 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: that's the best. He was totally oblivious to how funny 113 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 2: he was. But Uncle Johnny one month ago today. Wow. 114 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 2: And I know that Alex is thinking about him, thinking 115 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: hard about him today, so uh. And there you have it. 116 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: So it's good to look back on someone and even 117 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: though you're grieving and even though they're gone, it makes 118 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 2: you smile. I think that's the way they would want 119 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 2: it to be.