Most breakdowns don’t start with screaming or sudden collapse.

They start quietly.

With someone who used to laugh… growing silent.

Someone who was once reliable… becoming forgetful.

Someone who seemed fine… now isolating, snapping, or sleeping too much.

And here’s the truth:

Most people don’t know they’re breaking down until they’re already broken.

That’s why …

This episode is a short version of realizing, we are not dead yet, and there's a way out. There are lots of options, but the mind can block them if it's not at balance. Understanding where you are in your life now, and why you are here are explorations that we all need to take to get to the root of the answers.

Hopelessness can be a vicious cycle in that when one feels hopeless, they may engage in behaviours such as oversleeping, isolating, drinking alcohol, or overeating that usually only end up exacerbating feelings of hopelessness.  As such, when feeling hopeless one must often push themselves to do things that they might not feel like doing such as getting out of bed in the morning, talking to a friend, exercising, or eating a healthy meal.  Listen to host Ray Brown discuss hopelessness.

Mental Health Crisis Rising Among Youth, with host Ray Brown focuses on how anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts are harming our youth and their future.

The dark void of depression sucks us in and keeps us there for as long as we let it... there are ways to recover from depression. In this podcast, I go over some of the methods to recover.  

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mental Illness Impacting Youth, with High Suicides Rates. The youth today are in trouble, suffering from several kinds of mental illnesses ranging from depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness and suicidality. Worldwide, more than 800,000 people die due to suicide each year. It is estimated that about 1.5 million people will die due to suicide by the…

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Men's Depression, anxiety, suicide during Pandemic. Teenagers and Men’s Dark Depression during the pandemic saw a spike in the Mental Health phone lines going off. Depression is a serious side effect of cognitive dissonance. In this podcast, we get into what causes depression in young teens, and men, and how to combat it and seek…