Peanut’s Practice 🥜 ‘Men’s Mental Health’ 🧘

One more song and then we'll pick up the show. Text some friends, text some people that you think might have something to tell or need a good lesson. One week later then usually because maybe OG's mental health was a little bit at his peak or maybe down low. It was supposed to be last week obviously with the first one the day of the month but here we are. I'm glad to welcome you all. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm hanging in there keeping it positive. Pain is a difficult thing to manage and the medical system is so slow and backwards and nothing ever works right and so I've been through the ringer the past few days but I'm happy to be here. Physical pain versus mental pain is that correct? Yeah, physical pain for sure. I have some hip issues. I've had some long standing. I played a lot of sports when I was younger. I had hip surgery when I was 16. Just located in my kneecap, you know, just casual things. And yeah woke up the other day unable to walk and I'm having to go through the whole MRI process and figure out what is going on. So yeah, but other than that, I'm not far me and right now which means I have more time at home so that is somewhat of a bonus. Yeah, looks like that. No blocking dogs during the space. No one is talking to you. Exactly. No traffic dudes running through you but yeah, I kind of looking for some remote work in the moment so polishing up my resume and probably looks like this is maybe going to cause a career change. So going through it, but I am staying positive and you know, got a little more time to work on the project right now. So there's always a positive, right? Even though it's an uncomfortable door to walk through, there's a reason for it. It's real. Actually, like just two weeks ago, I was talking to somebody about how this winter, I was going to wait until after the farm season to start looking for remote work and some kind of change in career. And here you go. The universe was like, how about now? You asked me to live her. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Now, I mean, physical pain can both be a cause and an effect of mental health as well. But we'll get, I mean, if anyone would maybe tap into that, then it's our fellow co-host, Mr. Wizzy. Where's how are you, my brother? Okay. Wiz is still picking up his little one. So I guess he's going to be a little later. But to your point, Quebec and to the point of mental health and physical health, both can be a cause of each other. If you're not very well aligned mentally, then that can cause some physical problems. And the other way around with you now, being not being able to do your regular job, if it wasn't for having to do so much with Web 3, I mean, and you're always a very, I think you're very well aware of your mental health. And I think a lot more than a lot of others, you are very capable of turning a bad situation into something that eventually is going to provide you something. But that's not for everybody. But do you feel like the physical inability to do your job, if it wasn't for Web 3, it might have had a bit of a bigger impact for you? Yeah, well, I just located my knee on the job, like maybe three years ago. And I feel like, I mean, it was a really long recovery process. I was on crutches for almost three months, and then just, you know, it took probably a little over a year before I stopped feeling it, you know, when I would go walking or something. And I did try to make the best of it, right? I was fortunate because I was doing a lot of like permitting process and like what we call a metric, which is like the monitoring of a lot of computer work that goes alongside the farm, especially when you're growing cannabis equivalent to like, if you were producing pharmaceuticals or making alcohol, like there's a lot of kind of computer work that goes into it to monitor like from seed to sale and, you know, all the steps between. And so I had some work, but there was still even though I was, you know, positive and keeping a good attitude and had friends checking in on me, the weight that it puts on my partner, like the inability to, you know, change my clothes or put socks on or do the things to take care of the animals that are, you know, my responsibilities or cooking food or whatever, you know, that definitely is a tough thing to deal with. I think that when it's so prolonged, there comes a point in time where you're like, wow, okay, it's been two months. I'm still on crutches. Like, is it going to get better? You know, you're like starting to have those fears, right, that really come in and eat at you and, and it's just like you said, you just have to switch that perspective. You have to believe that that's not the case. You have to believe that you're going to get better. And now, the scenario, it sounds like there may be finding something that I may have had from birth that's causing me to have these issues. So, you know, it might get better, but it may not, you know, this might be something I deal with for the rest of my life. So there's some mental anguish that comes with that. But having, you know, a lot of people that, like I'm really involved in my pickleball community out here and I've had like 15 different people check on me every day, you know, and people offering to bring me food and help, you know, do stuff because right now I can, I can sit on a computer and then that's just about it. So it's been nice to have that. But even though I can be positive and I can, you know, see it as it's just a new chapter and there's going to be a lot of change and that's okay. There's still like, I'm not perfect and nobody is and there's still times and moments where there's frustration in the tears instead of pain or tears because of frustration that you can't do something or you dropped something and you can't pick it up and you know, like simple, simple things. So I think you have to do your best. It's tough, but you have to do your best to keep a positive outlook and to just remember that just because one chapter ends doesn't mean that the next chapter isn't better, even though the transition might be difficult and I can relate it somewhat to like heartbreak, right? Somebody's was someone they've been for a long time and they realize that they need to leave and to leave, but it's super, super, super painful and you have to sort things out and figure out who keeps what and it's uncomfortable and there's anger and frustration and grief and all of the feelings, but that next chapter, like you might meet, you know, the true love of your life, even though you maybe thought for years that it was that person, you may have your eyes open to something that you never even knew could exist and so I think not being afraid of the unknown and welcoming it and believing and you know, it could be a lot of hope, right? Some people call it faith that something better is coming in and that this is just a piece of the puzzle to get you there, but perspective is huge and when you're in a lot of pain, sometimes perspective goes out the window and you're just like, you know, going through it. But you do your best, you do your best, be nice. Through the topic of mental health, I think maybe men are a little bit less, we're not as good as putting things into perspective as women, maybe we may have a harder time. Not going all in and maybe reading the situation correctly, trying to do more than we should, instead of stepping back and giving a situation or people some space we tend to lean in more because we're solvers, we're providers. We want to provide a solution, we want to fix things and that sometimes can work right the other way and I think that's a very important thing that people, when we're talking about we need to master and...