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Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast

Author: Philip Briscoe

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Have you ever felt like you’ve become lost in your own life? 

Many men struggle to talk about their problems and mental health and grew up believing that to do can be perceived as a sign of weakness or failure. There is also a lack of open discussion in society around men’s mental health, especially aimed at mid-life men.  As a result, at times many men can feel alone and lost in their own lives. 

In this podcast series, I talk to mid-life men about their stories; the challenges, the turning points, and the support received to help them find their way so that others who may be suffering in silence or don’t know what to do next, realise that they are not alone and there is help available. 

Stories will cover a whole range of challenges faced by mid-life men mainly relating to the causes of mental health issues including feelings of isolation, depression, job dissatisfaction, addiction, PTSD, and long-term illness.

The podcast is NOT a replacement for professional support and we signpost to organisations and their contact details by episode. 

If you have a story you would like to share or any feedback on the podcasts, please email me: [email protected].

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You’ve worked hard, built a career and done everything you're expected to do. Then you’re made redundant. Everyone says you’ll find something else, but what happens when every rejection leaves you questioning whether you have anything left to offer? Arun Kumar thought he’d finally made it: a director’s role, a new home and a young family. When redundancy came, his thoughts went straight to nursery fees, heating bills and the fear that he had failed his wife and children. Nobody had prepared h...
What happens when you lose the life you love—and discover that the freedom you’ve been chasing means something different from what you thought? Mike Karame left a career in law to build a life he loved around horses, nature and adventure. For years, he felt he was where he belonged. Then his relationship with his father broke down, and he moved to Australia for a fresh start. Instead, his business collapsed. He lost his home and life savings, faced overwhelming debt and eventually found...
You may know Christian O’Connell’s voice from the Absolute Radio in the UK or his eponymous breakfast show in Australia, but this conversation is about something many men find much harder than talking: admitting they’re struggling. The award-winning broadcaster and author joins me for an honest, insightful and often funny conversation about the pressures of midlife, feeling trapped by the person everyone expects you to be, and finding a way back to yourself. Christian describes th...
You might know when you want to retire. But what do you want your life to look like when you do? Long mornings, no commute, nobody telling you what to do. It sounds appealing. Yet work gives us more than we sometimes realise: people to talk to, a reason to get up, a sense of achievement and an answer to the question, “What do you do?” So what happens when all that changes? Chris Maduri joins me to explore the side of retirement we can easily overlook while counting down to our last day. We ta...
Chaz Holesworth grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia, a neighbourhood gutted by poverty and an opioid crisis that hasn't let up since the 1980s. His father was a heroin addict for over 20 years. His mother, overwhelmed and unsupported, pulled the family into a fundamentalist born-again church that cut them off from the outside world, banned music and movies, and taught Chaz from age four that he was one sinful thought away from hell. In this episode, Chaz talks about what it was like gro...
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