Twice as many boys (aged 5-10) have mental health issues compared to girls. Ignored in article, but appears in graph.

jackcos · 2018-11-22T14:36:34+00:00

It's the '19% of journalists killed are women' stat all over again.

Twice as many boys ages 5-10 have issues, twice as many young women aged 17-19 have issues... but they lead with women instead of children and young people in general.

Worse still, as I posted elsewhere on the sub just a few moments ago, there was nothing for men's mental health awareness on International Men's Day. Inexcusable.

seraph85 · 2018-11-22T14:52:27+00:00

"The young people with mental health problems were more likely to say their mood was affected by the number of "likes" they got and they were also more likely to compare themselves to others on social media."

transientcat · 2018-11-22T19:37:53+00:00

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-of-children-and-young-people-in-england/2017/2017

Its a summary table of a more in depth survey... It's also worth noting that the data collection from that age range is suspect based on the study authors themselves...

bluesydragon · 2018-11-22T18:32:23+00:00

Could it be that boys have more mental health issues because psychology has pathologized natural male tendencies?

ReasonableVictory1 · 2018-11-22T19:57:30+00:00

Wait, you mean shaming boys, teaching them they're broken, purposely empowering women, and then later empowering women's sexuality at their expense, effectively making sex the most ayn randian objectivist dog-eat-dog nightmare possible for one sex while a sexy fun free for all for the other sex has negative implications? You mean punishing one gender while constantly talking about how awful it is, while simultaneously rewarding that behavior (and the boys notice this) on the sly, thus being massively unfair and dishonest, has negatives?

Have we ever considered that men and boys are just broken and their feelings maybe worth 1/4 of a girl's?

Yeah, by puberty most men have figured out no one fucking cares about theirs mental health.

Seriously. Even family cares more about random women than their own boys. As long as random unaffiliated women are happy, the boys can deal before fellating a shotgun after a life without love. Boys are meant to be punished and hurt, women are meant to be pleased and helped.

DigitalisEdible · 2018-11-22T22:06:58+00:00

Western society does not care about men. In fact it actively hates men, and I’m convinced the main driver behind men’s mental health issues is our hugely feminised society that shits on men while telling them they live the existence of a god. I’ve suffered depression, discrimination, bullying in the workplace, unemployment due to injury in the workplace, you name it. What support have I received? Nada, nothing, nobody cares, nobody gives a fuck. I have to suffer in silence yet every news outlet on the planet constantly tells me that my shitty existence is a life of privilege. NOT ONLY do I have to read about how privileged I am, I’m also told I cannot reach out. If I reach out I’m an enemy, I’m an “MRA”, I’m a trump voter, I’m a nazi, I’m alt-right, I hate women, ALL OF IT. CONSTANTLY.

So yeah, I suffer in silence until the day I put a gun in my mouth.

blette · 2018-11-23T04:07:49+00:00

It does not matter if boys have mental health problems.

Boys cannot have babies, so they don't matter.

Children don't need mentally stable fathers, they only need a mother.

(sarcasm warning)

TheAndredal · 2018-11-23T00:59:40+00:00

So why do we never hear of this? All we hear is about women having issues and problems. Yet nobody talks about boys. This is so bad

J03SChm03OG · 2018-11-22T19:44:19+00:00

Also by the time the young women are the larger number of people with mental health issues they have been indoctrinated for years with the victim mentality and have been force fead the entitlement by the feminist media barrage since childhood. And the young men have been told how little they matter for the same amount of time from the same media.

BroaxXx · 2018-11-23T01:09:31+00:00

What worries me is exactly what these issues these 5-10 boys are having. Because I fear that normal energetic boy behavior is being labeled as a mental disorder....

2018-11-22T22:54:03+00:00

Unfortunately I'm not even surprised reading articles like this anymore :(

Littleknight · 2018-11-22T23:18:07+00:00

We gotta help our young boys.

Mikelod12 · 2018-11-23T02:06:04+00:00

Ive been abused by my mother for 18 years, I just got out of it and I have ptsd

ThreeLF · 2018-11-22T16:43:36+00:00

In defense of the quality of the article:

It is very likely that the huge gap from ages 5-10 is accounted for by developmental disorders such as adhd, autism, and down's syndrome, etc. Virtually all of these developmental disorders which are present in childhood affect boys more than girls.

While this certainly is a problem that deserves more attention, it would have dragged the article so far off track to include information about that statistic. It would have changed the headline.

Maybe that article should have been written instead, but I don't know if we have a right to say what individual journalists should be writing about.

DavidByron2 · 2018-11-22T22:53:38+00:00

It's probably more than double because women get better health services than men.

2018-11-23T02:22:56+00:00

Gynocentrism refers to a dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice; or to the advocacy of this. Anything can be considered gynocentric when it is concerned exclusively with a female (or feminist) point of view.

AANickFan · 2018-11-22T23:30:36+00:00

Wait can’t that just be because boys have more autism?

2018-11-23T07:01:32+00:00

I will say that this is likely because young boys are held to the standards of a female in elementary school and diagnosed as hyperactive or compulsive because they're just being a little boy, not because they actually have more health problems at that age.

SerialSection · 2018-11-23T07:12:03+00:00

The age bins are pretty weirdly distributed too. 5-10 is 6 years, 11- 16 is 6 years, then all of a sudden 17-19 is 3 years? Seems like someone was testing a way to manipulate the data to show a difference.

And where are the error bars? Is the difference significant?

oggyb · 2018-11-22T18:55:33+00:00

This was on radio 2 news as little. More than the headline. I figured there was much more to it than meets the eye. My first thought was how much easier it is for older girls and young women to talk about their mental health and get diagnosed.

Luchadorgreen · 2018-11-23T00:26:02+00:00

Ofc. BBC explains it all.

lordtyp0 · 2018-11-23T04:25:11+00:00

Not seeing the graph reference..

littlefilms · 2018-11-23T06:07:08+00:00

Don't feminists not want women to be seen as weak and vulnerable, needing of extra care etc, but have no problem endorsing articles like this? Where's the rage?

nemansky · 2018-11-23T08:03:57+00:00

In USA, if one speaks too much he has a "mental health issue". If you smoke a cigarette you have a mental disorder etc etc etc etc etc etc. These mental health stuff ain't serious. Mental issues are like Reptilians: everyone talk about them but no one can prove their existence.

corinarh · 2018-11-23T08:05:56+00:00

((((BBC))))

Nobody cares about men, especially neo-liberal media.

Dragofireheart · 2018-11-23T12:32:51+00:00

Maybe this is their plan to make Single Payer work: just kill off all those sick evil men!

cjay_2018 · 2018-11-22T23:09:09+00:00

Aren't all women crazy? find me one normal girl I will wait

Title	Twice as many boys (aged 5-10) have mental health issues compared to girls. Ignored in article, but appears in graph.
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Date	November 22, 2018 1:53 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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