General Hospital’s Evan Hofer Explains Why Our ‘People’ Are Important

It’s been a hot minute since Dex was one of Sonny’s pals and a mobster-in-training on General Hospital. Now, he’s on the path to becoming a police officer putting him squarely on the opposite side of the law with his former boss. In real life, the two are great pals, and the two got together to discuss how Hofer dealt with mental health struggles and who helped him.

Our People Pick Us Up

Recently, Maurice Benard (Sonny) had co-star Evan Hofer (Dex) on his YouTube series State of Mind for a second time. He shared the link on Instagram with the caption: “[Evan Hofer] said some incredibly profound things, on this. [Maurice Benard] I am very proud of our conversation, and how he went deep. We discuss, relationships, mental health, I’m not sure I think we discuss his abdominals, the Emmys, @generalhospitalabc , friendships.”

In the video, Hofer expounded on what Benard had previously said, explaining that being in a good place (mentally) makes things wonderful. However, he explained, “There’s times where we’re not going to be. We’re going to be down and we need our people to help pick us up.” Benard stated that he felt mental illness could be selfish because the person struggling is always in need of help from their ‘people.’

Friends Will Be Friends

Hofer revealed, “When I’m in a bad place where I feel like a burden to people…I stop talking about it. But that’s way worse.” He felt that internalizing what was bothering him was concerning because it would rear its head somewhere or someway else. He explained that if he stayed in that place and kept telling friends and family about it, he would feel like “A burden to my people and my friends for too long. And so I can’t talk about it anymore. And no one is enforcing that except me.”

“Your people want to be there for you, and that’s what’s so beautiful about friendship, isn’t it?” he remarked, further explaining no one is forced to help a person who’s struggling. Rather, they “Show up for you cuz they want to.” He recalled that many people were there for him when he was struggling mentally and wouldn’t soon forget their efforts. “It’s realizing that your people that love you, whether it be your family [or] your friends…they would rather you be a burden to them in this way that mental illness is selfish than for you to not be here.” (Find out what Hofer’s insights about Dex are.)