I would like to know how you advocate for men’s issues in your own personal, professional and/or social circles? And what was the response you had received (if any)?

Background: last November on International Men’s Day, I posted stories on IG about the promotion of Men’s mental health issues and listed some charitable causes who are supporting the epidemic. It was fair to say it went down like a lead balloon within (what I thought was) my close-knit social media circle. The only responses I got were from accounts who didn’t know me nor follow me, telling me to “off myself” and “I wasn’t worth peeing on if I was on fire, let alone helping because I’m a man”. Little did they know I have been dealing with medically diagnosed severe/manic depression and anxiety for over a decade (which is something I have been open about when I called out “Blue Monday” as a BS marketing ploy that undermines depression earlier that same year). This was essentially the straw that broke my back and I left IG earlier this year.