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Breaking the Silence: Men, Mental Health and the Crisis of Connection
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D opened a wide-ranging conversation about mental health, masculinity, loneliness and suicide with filmmaker Byron Hurt, author Adam Mansbach, and educator and community organizer Dr. César Cruz. Rather than treating mental health solely as an individual problem, the discussion explored the social forces that can leave men isolated, emotionally disconnected and reluctant to ask for help. Hurt, director of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, described an exercise he has conducted with men for decades. Asked what society teaches them a man should be, participants…
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