Are mens mental health issues being ignored by society? (Page 3)

[Paul09]

It sure feels that way. Then the "man up" lines start popping up. Like yeaaahhh it's not a switch you can just flip. Need more people to be open and realize it's not a easy thing to live with, and change instantly. So you have to keep trying to help your self over and over till maybe hopefully it gets better.

[Zachpat3213]

I do believe society does throw it under the bus since guys are supposed to be the “stronger one”. But as a person who deals with mental health, it all depends on who you surround yourself with. I have great friends who are there if I need it. So if you’re around people that don’t care or say get over it, they need to go and it’s that simple.

[OrganicManic420]

Your absolutly right about the company we keep. We are only as good as thoes around us. But only if it was that simple. (My hopes is for most it is)
Personally I have cut all those people from my life, this has included both my parents, my grandparents actually all my family except my grandmother. 96% of all my friends. I have dealt with sever depression since I was diagnosed at 13. I'm turning 30. My family never understood depression or addiction. I suffer from adhd and some days it is a positive some it's a negative. Throw in my trama and ptsd along with sleep problems. I have vivid dreams and bad night terrors. Sometimes I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was also sexually abused severely bullied as to the extrema of being hit with cars and having my vehicle sabotaged. That being said it's easy to talk the talk and say get over it your absolutly right but that's not the cure. Even talking about it does not always work. Depending on issues at hand and what all the compounding problems are their is not 1 true method to fix this issue. Each person will require different means of assessment and intervention to help their mental state.
Some can get by with a new set of man rules while others need months of rehabilitation and learning let a lone changing their outlook and opinion on what be a man.

[PositiveNote]

Men's mental health is not ignored for treatment. Women primarily will see mental health counselors because they are more social. Men have a super long way to go before they recognize mental health is not a weakness and can be helped.

[Passinggas]

Society is men's number one mental health issue. Enough men haven’t died yet to impact women's lives because the infrastructure is still functioning. But, Yes, men are expendable and almost seen today as rodents to women.

[WTFever]

Yes, it is being ignored. And all you have to do is look at the men who are doing the mass shootings. Every single one has mental health issues.

[AaronKrieger]

Not really as mass shootings can be done due to beliefs and ideology such as the masque shooting. I don't deny there has been ones due to mental health issues, but most of it isn't a mental health issue. It's an issue with the society itself. That's why the U. S. deals with more mass shootings than other countries.

[WTFever]

@AaronKrieger I mean there are no mass shootings in China, because no one has guns but the government. But mass killings still happen in China. There was one recently, where a woman baked rat poison into cookies and took them to the local school, killing 38 and making more than 100 hospitalized.

[AaronKrieger]

Still we have more mass shootings than most countries in public area's that known for being more relatively safe

[WTFever]

@AaronKrieger China actually has more mass killings than America does.

[AaronKrieger]

I'm too not surprised about that.

[demonics]

Men have issues? lol they just need to man up!

[WitchDoc]

I feel that the stigma is weakening toward the attitude of men seeking mental health. I think this may have to do with more soldiers seeking care, and a large push that it's okay to seek help. But we are generations from it not being seen as a weakness in "men".

[HungLikeAHorsefly]

I don't think it's being ignored per se, but I do think it's still not a socially acceptable thing to be a man and to deal with mental health issues in a way that's actually constructive.

[morrowlow]

yeah there are no places that offer help to men. women have shelters and support groups and stuff but men have nothing that's why suicide rate is higher among men

[rionrion]

Yup. I mean in most cases society has tought men that having mental illnrsses isn't masculine so most men try to hide it