Can you please share your resources about the bad mental health of men?

reddut_gang · 2021-08-10T16:34:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/np7d9a/study\_of\_1500\_men\_who\_committed\_suicide\_91\_had/

2021-08-10T17:33:47+00:00

Denial of physical affection over decades causes depression. Seems this should be obvious but it’s common.

FinallyReborn · 2021-08-11T13:20:26+00:00

I can share with you a couple -

The majority of male suicides and mental health issues are brought on by a lack of child access and a bias family court.

^{Child contact problems and family court issues are related to chronic mental health problems for men following family breakdown. Can be found here:} ^{https://zenodo.org/record/4302120}

^{The Mental Health Struggles of Single and Divorced Men. Can be found here:} ^{https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-men/202102/the-mental-health-struggles-single-and-divorced-men}

91% of men who commit suicide had contacted a helpline, forcing men to "open up" detracts attention away from the real, systemic issues that are the primary causation behind male mental health issues and suicides.

^{Masculinities and suicide: unsettling ‘talk’ as a response to suicide in men. Can be found here:} ^{https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2021.1908959?journalCode=ccph20}

^{Suicide by middle-aged men. Can be found here:} ^{https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=55305}

Men who believe in "toxic masculinity" have worse mental health issues and lower self-esteem.

^{The Fight Over Men Is Shaping Our Political Future. Can be found here:} ^{https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/apa-guidelines-men-boys.html}

^{Reactions to contemporary narratives about masculinity: A pilot study. Can be found here:} ^{https://zenodo.org/record/3871217#.X-p1ji2l2J}

^{Cognitive Distortion in Thinking About Gender Issues: Gamma Bias and the Gender Distortion Matrix. Can be found here:} ^{https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-04384-1\}5)

Feminist beliefs are negative for men's mental health, and male-friendly therapists reject such ideological beliefs.

^{How therapists work with men is related to their views on masculinity, patriarchy, and politics. Can be found here:} ^{https://www.pjp.psychreg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/7-john-barry-50-64.pdf}

Male psychologists believe that the term "toxic masculinity" is bad for men's mental health, and that it isn't supported by any experimental evidence.

^{Cognitive Distortion in Thinking About Gender Issues: Gamma Bias and the Gender Distortion Matrix. Can be found here:} ^{https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-04384-1\}5)

shit-zen-giggles · 2021-08-11T18:02:49+00:00

MRM related scientific papers

Male Studies more scientific papers

Male Mental Health sub hands on support (so, case studies), also discusses the science

Long and well organized list of high quality sources: Men's Rights Citation List

Diligent-Education64 · 2021-08-10T16:50:36+00:00

I tried looking up the numbers but you are correct. They are hard to find. What is easy to find is that the field of psychology is becoming very pink lately. Fifty years ago men were the majority of psychologists and now about 75% of psychologists are woman.

These are not just any women, they were raised on the feminist ideology that men are bad and women are good. Even 40 years ago when I first went to marriage counseling they were uninterested in what the man has to say. They support the woman because if she's unhappy the marriage is over. They should have warned me. I would have just left.

So care for men based on our anti-male environment will fall on deaf ears to todays psychologists.

I read a screed about how men shouldn't get more services for suicide despite the person making the argument that men have 3 times the suicides as women. But women worry about it more so they should get more services, argues the feminist.

poopoohead1281 · 2021-08-10T18:14:23+00:00

Although I don’t have anything to give you I can give you my personal experience with the mental health system. Ever since I was a kid I’ve had depression and anxiety but it took them 12 years to get me my meds without even getting me a real therapist. The most I ever got was 4 or so months of “treatment” with a psychiatrist. Even the big doctors in huge cities like Toronto couldn’t get my any help in a timely manner even tho they have it all at their fingertips. I still suffer from it everyday and at this point I don’t think my depression can be cured. Also my add went unnoticed for all my life until this year because they just thought I was “being a boy”. Have a good day and I hope this gave you some insight

SokalDidNothingWrong · 2021-08-10T20:15:17+00:00

IIRC it's actually mixed. For less serious cases, men are healthier, partly because they're encouraged to solve their own problems. For more serious cases, men are worse off, partly because they're encouraged to solve their own problems.

McFeely_Smackup · 2021-08-11T01:04:04+00:00

I'm watching the local evening news right now. A few minutes ago there was a story about a man "suffering a mental health crisis" that ended with him being shot and killed by the police.

How's that for "men's mental health support"?

Patient_Fondant5592 · 2021-08-11T03:03:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ov4f21/why_does_it_seem_that_men_hate_women/

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