Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast
Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast
Philip Briscoe
Why Does My Past Still Control Me? with Paul Drugan
44 minutes Posted Jun 27, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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In this episode, we talk to Paul Drugan, who carried the emotional scars of growing up with a father who, behind closed doors, was controlling, violent and emotionally abusive. From the outside, his family looked successful and respectable. Inside the home, he was living in fear, convinced that somehow he deserved what was happening. Like many men, Paul never spoke about it. Instead, he buried the pain beneath achievement, alcohol, drugs and a lifetime of believing he wasn't good ...