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Men’s Mental Health
An often-ignored crisis.
Currently in America today, there are over 6 million men suffering from depression, 14.3% of men are struggling with some level of anxiety. The list goes on and the numbers are growing. Yet as of 2021, only 12% of men are in ongoing mental health support with a counselor or psychologist.
Men seem more likely to accept their mental health concerns as a personality trait or mask their symptoms in lieu of getting any kind of mental health care.
Depression and anxiety affect women at twice the rate of men, but despite this fact, men are succumbing to suicide at four times the rate as women. This is a serious crisis among men.
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Men are often taught that only weak men need to get therapy. In their social circles, men are often told that therapy is for weak-minded men or made to feel that they are bad at being a man if they need it.
Hypermasculine jobs, which oftentimes are more psychologically damaging and traumatic than average, project the biggest overtly gendered bias about therapy and therefore make it less likely that men who may suffer from trauma due to their job stress and experiences are less likely to receive help for it.
What can sometimes end up happening when men are dealing with mental health…
