🧠 You’re Not Crazy — You’re Just Finally Seeing It

By Damien J. Branch

June • Men’s Mental Health Month

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I finished a book I never meant to write.

It started as a journal entry… just me, trying to get through one more day without breaking. But somewhere in those pages, I started telling the truth. Not just about what was happening around me — but what was happening to me. And in me.

That truth turned into a full book.

And it couldn’t have landed at a more divine time.

Right now, it’s Men’s Mental Health Month. And here I am — releasing a book that exposes the weight men carry behind closed doors.

Not just heartbreak. Not just stress.

But the betrayal of being emotionally invisible.

You think you’re building something with someone…

Then you realize you were doing all the building alone.

You don’t see it until you actually save yourself from it.

That line hit me in the middle of a quiet moment — after therapy, after being left alone again, after another birthday went by feeling like I didn’t matter. I wrote it down. Then I wrote the next line. And the next. And the book wrote me just as much as I wrote it.

I’m not a victim. I’m not a saint. I’m not a therapist.

I’m a man who refused to stay silent while being slowly erased.

And I know there’s more of us.

Men who’ve been told they’re “Too emotional.”

Men who’ve been guilt-tripped into silence.

Men who’ve been made to carry 100% of the blame for a two-person storm.

So, this book is not just a memoir. It’s a mirror.

Not to shame.

To show.

Show you the patterns.

Show you how I healed.

Show you how I kept showing up for my kids even when I was falling apart.

Show you that you’re not crazy — you’re just finally seeing it.

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💬 If any of this sounds like you:

1. You’re not alone.

2. You deserve to be heard.

3. Healing is not weakness.

This book was written to guide you through that.

To give you language for things that you were never taught to speak about.

And to remind you:

We don’t become strong by pretending. We become strong by healing.

— Damien J. Branch