Could we improve men’s mental health?
Could we improve men’s mental health?
Would more men be open to going to therapy if they had resources tailored specifically for them, and if the office had Emotional Support Animals for appointment use?
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I will say it every time it's even slightly relevant until I die, The Will to Change by Bell Hooks should be mandatory reading for men. Men suffer unique mental health crises at the hands of patriarchy and need specialized care just as much as anyone else.
To address your specific question though, I think possibly, but not much, because the men who need help and care most are the ones most resistant to reaching out and the ones most insistent on rugged independence and getting up, dusting themselves off, and jumping back in the fight without treating their wounds.
Sure... But if there is a massive incidence of these "wounds" then therapy and self help is too little too late.
Why is nobody ITT talking about the causes of this wave of misery? We are putting all the responsibility on individual men to show their vulnerability with no interest in solving the initial problems!
That was my intention with plugging The Will to Change, it's definitely not a "here's why men suck" piece, it's a feminist analysis on all of the unique harms that men are subjected to under patriarchy, how those manifest, and how to heal from them. Any analysis of the suffering of men under patriarchy that lands on individual responsibility as a cause for psychological suffering is a bad one.
Sure, but that patriarchy has been around for a long time and this wave of despair is new. You could probably solve some problems that way, but it's not the solution to the big problem we're facing here.
Rising inequality and alienation are the problems.