https://www.mototoheal.com/mystory daily 0.75 2019-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9b2836e5dda13c2db207b/1578500949559-QGJF6URB87914H73S9QT/moto%252BIG%252B2.jpg My story_00 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc9b2836e5dda13c2db207b/1578502425526-X3G4A370VLDAICPUR1AJ/djv%2Bpic3.jpg My story_00 - “Complete denial, shame and defeat” At times, burying these overwhelming and unbearable emotions led to uncharacteristic physical actions and unprofessional confrontations. I kept excusing myself and justifying my behavior without hesitation. I failed to identify and take ownership of the bigger issue at hand. I was in complete denial. Over time, I began to take stock of these familiar feelings and connect my experiences of past incidences with my present knowledge mental health specifically, stress disorders, depression and anxiety. As I learned more about these conditions, and started to link them with my own single and compounded traumatic incidents, I felt an overwhelming sense of shame and defeat. Still, years past and it was only after a truly terrible scenario unfolded towards my children and wife that I had the resolution to finally bury my shame and seek professional help. I realized that shame, and the pressure to live up to the stereotype of what a man should be, was holding me back from a healthy mind. For decades, I had been living a lie, believing that a man must be tough and mercilessly bury those trivial, petty feelings and annihilate the challenges associated with mental health. For most of my life I was oblivious to, and completely dismissed anything to do with the notion of mental health. I feared judgement, ridicule and embarrassment. “Mental health, is health” This was the most powerful message I had heard in a lifetime. Most men tend to dismiss or ignore talk about mental challenges instead of confronting them or discussing them face to face. Because we are men, we have a greater challenge to overcome, the macho stereotype and the suck it up mentality. Thankfully for me, the one constant throughout all these challenges was not drugs or alcohol, but riding. The one aspect that seemed to make it all go away was riding. Finding myself riding my motorcycle, sometimes aimlessly for hours, and in some cases days, felt like the only remedy. Why was I feeling this incredible sense of inner peace and absolute freedom? Was I alone? Do others feel this connection? I began to explore if there were studies on such a topic and behold, there was. 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