#727 Jason O'Mara - Men & Depression
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Jason O’Mara (@JasonOmaraOfficial) is an Irish-American actor (Band of Brothers, Blood of Zeus) who advocates for mental health and works closely with Movember, an organization that focuses on men’s health, including mental health and suicide prevention. Jason also shares his own story of living with depression and his path to sobriety.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 727 with my guest, Jason O'Mara. |
| 0:05.5 | If you're new to the podcast, I'm not a therapist, but I'm a man. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm just one man trying to do his best on this planet. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm just one man. |
| 0:23.3 | Gracie is chewing her nails vigorously behind me. |
| 0:28.0 | You know, one of my favorite things is when you mention your dog's name and they stop doing what they're doing. |
| 0:33.6 | Not when you call them, but when you just casually mention it in conversation. |
| 0:38.5 | And they stop what they're doing and turn around. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, she just got a bath. |
| 0:42.7 | She was so fucking rank before I gave her a bath. |
| 0:49.9 | I like to push it. |
| 0:53.1 | Push it to the very limit of what is acceptable. |
| 0:57.5 | Just came from my Thursday night support group meeting. |
| 1:01.0 | And the topic was acceptance. |
| 1:04.2 | And, oh, some great shares. |
| 1:07.6 | Some great shares. |
| 1:08.4 | But one of the guys in there, he shared how difficult it is for him |
| 1:15.9 | to accept where he is in any given moment because his brain always wants him to be somewhere else. |
| 1:24.7 | And I guess that would be kind of the grass you know, if grass is always greener thing, but |
| 1:28.7 | for some of us, it's so pervasive. |
| 1:32.9 | It's just that, you just hear the clock ticking like, oh, if I can just get to that next |
| 1:40.3 | thing, then I'll feel relaxed and happy. |
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