Would love to bring to attention that June is Mens Mental Health month. Id like to thank all the men that we call our friends, brothers, fathers and what not for continually pushing through every day, especially if you are doing it tough!
There is always a light at the end of a tunnel. You all absolutely rock and you absolutely matter.
Have a virtual Beer with your friends and remember, it aint weak to speak.
my favorite part of when people dog on men’s mental health awareness (which im sure is going to happen in this thread) they reveal their callousness towards not just cis men but trans and gay men who likewise may have just as many struggles with mental health too
12 months sober, WoW helps a ton
Gotta be real, I don’t think that’s gonna happen
Living in this country every month should be mental health month.
So true. As is well known by now, any cultural pressure for men to repress their feelings is literally deadly. If you have a close group of friends you can open up to then you are truly blessed. Even if it’s just one person you can confide in though, please do. Not just when you’re at a point of severely struggling. Being open about small bothers can help prevent them becoming major issues later.
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You should overthrow the government; what’s one more on the list, really?
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The Trevor Project.
As a dude who almost took their own life, because of seeing themselves as less of a man due to their sexuality, I think they’re both pretty intertwined.
For me, anyway.
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law
and offen times all a man needs is one to recognise the burdens and sacrifices they have made not to down play or ignore
Thank you, I suffer from having far too much testosterone for one body, and it can be difficult at times..
Always trying to pull some negative out of what is positive.
It’s okay to care about men’s mental health, Junes isn’t just for the LGBT.
There’s also Juneteenth.
That’s another big one.
I’m going to rant, because I have nowhere else to put this.
From the angle of psychology: I wish more people would understand that feelings are a biological feature, not a bug. It is human to have feelings - it is glorious and vitally important to know and wrestle with them, whether they be triumph or despair. To ignore one’s feelings is to ignore one’s own self; it only feeds an unintegrated shadow.
From the angle of anatomy and physiology: Diabetes is a condition where the body becomes resistant to insulin, resulting in blood glucose dysregulation. Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver, which causes dysfunction. There are medical interventions and procedures that can treat these conditions.
“Mental Illness” is an umbrella term, for illnesses of the mind caused by physical and chemical changes to the brain. Many assert that medical interventions for mental illnesses are signs of mental weakness; but that assumes mental weakness is an ontological inferiority rather than an injury or condition. The theory of Multiple Intelligences is in direct contrast to this assumption. A person can be completely “stupid” at something like math, while being a world-renowned chef. Furthermore - it is cynical and selfish to presume that a weakness in one’s fellow man is cause to deride him, rather than prop him up and help him. Would you kick someone’s broken leg? Would you mock them for being unable to walk, even though their body makes it a physical impossibility? Of course not - that’s absurd.
Anyone with contempt for the mentally ill is nothing more than an insecure coward hiding behind a manufactured cardboard facsimile of an identity.
Bottling up emotions is never healthy, and I hate that “being a man,” for the most part, means you’re not allowed to show emotion.
Or, at least it did, for a long time. Times are changing.
I’ve always been a sensitive guy, and if I want to vent, I’d like to lol.
It’s literally the healthier thing to do.
I’m fine.
It just seems so inorganic, and I don’t know how things got to be that way. Some of the greatest men in history – Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon – all felt very deeply, and they are literally as masculine as it gets.
I don’t know if it’s some artifact of modernization, but it feels like there was at some point a great push to sever men from their emotions so they could be neutered into compliance.
The confusion compounds for me when many of the “men don’t/shouldn’t feel” enthusiasts happen to be Christian, when Christ Himself is shown weeping and feeling deeply several times in the Bible.
The only thing I would agree with them on is that one’s emotions should never take control. But they absolutely can and should advise the self. Refusing to feel them, ironically, gives them more control – because you’re acting in proportion to how badly you feel about feeling that emotion. It’s circular.