"Men, start talking."
Jonah Hill and Tom Holland are joining other male celebrities in breaking the stigma around men and mental health ...
Jonah Hill and Tom Holland are joining other male celebrities in breaking the stigma around men and mental health ...
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00:00If you're a man and you've got weight on your shoulders
00:04and you think the only way you can solve this by killing yourself
00:07please speak to someone
00:09I'd rather have me mate cry on me shoulder than go to his funeral
00:13Let's get rid of this stigma and men start talking
00:16I have taken a break from social media for my mental health
00:30because I find Instagram and Twitter to be overstimulating
00:34to be overwhelming
00:36I get caught up and I spiral when I read things about me online
00:41and ultimately it's very detrimental to my mental state
00:47so I decided to take a step back and delete the app
00:50There is an awful stigma against mental health
00:52and I know that asking for help and seeking help
00:57isn't something that we should be ashamed of
00:59but it is something that is much easier said than done
01:01I was running to things to avoid tough feelings
01:05painful feelings
01:07drugs, booze, Netflix, snacks
01:10I don't want to be running from anything
01:14I want to sit in it, I want to feel it
01:16It was kind of something that hit me within the last year
01:20and before that, growing up, I was a pretty calm kid
01:24and then when it hits you, you're like, oh my god, this is crazy
01:27Have you ever struggled with anxiety or depression?
01:30Not so much depression but certainly anxiety
01:32We are not our thoughts
01:34We all have to realize that the things that go on in our brain
01:36is not our true identity
01:38Anxiety is also something that I'm just now being exposed to
01:40For a long time, that wasn't a thing that we talked about
01:43I remember people talking about anxiety
01:45I just don't remember anybody when I was growing up
01:47that really being a thing
01:49It's something that every single person goes through
01:51and for me, I was sick and tired of compartmentalizing things
01:55that I didn't want to talk about
01:57and I just opened up
01:59and honestly, since then, my life has become easier
02:01I think historically there's been a stigma around anxiety
02:04because people are afraid to talk about it
02:06It's good that we're starting to have conversations about
02:08you don't have to tell someone to buck up
02:10You can say, hey, I'm here for you
02:12Who can I help you in any way?
02:14Got into therapy for the first time
02:16My sister was like, you need to see somebody
02:18You're sleeping until 4 o'clock in the afternoon
02:20Something's not right
02:22You need to see somebody
02:24You're not well
02:26I found that with depression
02:28one of the most important things you could realize
02:30is that you're not alone
02:32You're not the first to go through it
02:34Sometimes it happens
02:36You feel like you're alone
02:38We're sort of entering an age where
02:40people who don't talk about this
02:42My father's generation, they never talked about mental health
02:44or what was going on inside
02:46It was just bottle it up
02:48and the younger generations
02:50and hopefully my kids
02:52and their kids
02:54will have more open dialogues about this kind of stuff
02:56That's kind of the way out
02:58I always found like
03:00when you feel like you're not alone
03:02for some reason you can recover a lot faster
03:04you can see the light a little bit faster
03:06but when you feel like
03:08and a lot of people do
03:10they feel like they're completely alone
03:12and that's the worst feeling on earth
03:14Talking about it, to a certain degree
03:16sheds a little sliver of light in there