'It's OK not to be OK': Mental health campaign puts the spotlight on men | CBC News

dontpet · 2019-11-22T20:06:37+00:00

I have mixed feelings about messages like this. When they are stand alone I would say they are even harmful. And almost all messages like this toward men are this type.

There is rarely any acknowledgement of the larger social issues men face (being told they have a problematic culture). Nor are there any mentions of how services are rarely designed to include men and often excluding then.

Men that are in extreme distress for damned good reasons don't need the shaming or the extra burden of telling them that if they just talked about it they would feel better.

So overall, I see these approaches as being a wash.

rabel111 · 2019-11-22T22:44:54+00:00

Don't be fooled. This is just another sociopathic attack on men.

This approach frames men and masculinity in negative terms, as broken, needing fixing, as being both the fundamental cause of men's mental health issues and the reason effective services are not utilised by men. This approach, supported by the APA's guidelines for treating boys and men sees masculinity as a disease that needs to be cured.

This approach completely ignores valid mental health issues experienced by men, the lack of empathy exhibited in mental health services and public discourse, the constant condemnation of men and masculinity in family services and the demeaning and humiliation men are met with when they do speak about their needs and experiences. At least when those experiences are not framed in feminist ideological language.

jonnytechno · 2019-11-23T15:25:46+00:00

I'm not sure how I feel about the approach taken to Mens mental health, the buzzword or phrase is usually "let's talk about mental health" or like this "it's OK not to be OK" but is it? Really? Because there have been statistics out there and research papers indicating that homeless & suicide victim are by a large factor linked through divorce. In the UK a gov paper reported that male suicide victims were 8 time more likely to commit suicide after a divurce... They know the causes they're just unwilling to do anything about it

2019-11-25T11:29:34+00:00

This doesn't help men, because it's not OK to be not OK. Men who complain about their treatment are demonized. If you want to help male suicide, you have to treat the causes - rampant sexism against men.

2019-11-23T06:29:24+00:00

Nice try UK

Title	'It's OK not to be OK': Mental health campaign puts the spotlight on men \| CBC News
Author	ArrestedDevelopments
Upvotes	219
Comments	16
Date	November 22, 2019 6:13 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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