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Experts highlight risk factors for male suicide—and the keys to preventing it
(www.canadianaffairs.news)
Men are often taught that being a man means not showing weakness or needing help, says John Oliffe, a registered nurse and founder of the Men’s Health Research program at the University of British Columbia
When men do ask for help, they can be met with criticism for not reaching out earlier or told that masculinity is toxic, says Justin Trottier, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Men and Families, a charity for men and their children.
This is the problem. You come forward needing help and you're told you're a pussy or you need to man up. Everyone saying all these "men need therapy but they'd rather x" are probably some of the exact same people to put men down for showing vulnerability and seeking help. It's not that men would rather do whatever (granted some might), it's that when we go looking for help we don't get it! We're hurt more in the process and then spiral down further and
“If a guy has a bad experience when he first goes to seek help professionally, he’s very unlikely to come back,” said Oliffe.
then it's even harder to crawl out of that spiral. People just need to start treating men like human beings with emotions and not stone faced rock hearted automatons. The men who you know who are like that? They've been taught that's how they HAVE to act. It's a very sad state of affairs.