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Mental Health has Always been a Secret | Mark Fujiwara

14 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation featuring Mark Fujiwara discussing lifelong secrecy around mental health. Fujiwara describes years of suffering alone (panic attacks, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation) and how, after opening up in entrepreneurial rooms, others reciprocated with similarly deep disclosures; he recounts bonding quickly with a friend who had exited a company and sharing secrets previously known only to their spouses.

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Mental health has always been a secret.
For 47.
Years or so. And then just being in an entrepreneurial.
World, it's interesting.
Just, just in the last few years, we've been more open about talking with that.
But I.
Was suffering by myself. It was lonely. It was panic attacks, anxiety, depression, suicide, ideation. And all of a sudden, when I started opening.
Up to other people and.
Feeling safe about that in some rooms, it was amazing how others would share. In fact, one of my best friends.
Actually, who.
Exited a company.
For well.
Over nine.
Figures, that's.
Exactly how we met.
We met.
Not talking about what we.
Do, but about our.
Mental health struggles. And within 10 minutes, we both shared just the deepest and darkest secrets and feelings and emotions that only I believe our wives knew.