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Men's Mental Health - A Silent Crisis





There are links to helplines at the bottom of this post.

If you don't feel in the mood to read you can just sit back, press play and watch the video instead.






Mental health illness can affect men and woman alike. Men suffer from mental health problems at very similar rates to women, yet they are far less likely to seek professional  help and  they are also less likely to disclose a mental health problem to friends and family.

Many men don’t feel comfortable discussing their emotions, there are many reason's for this:

Society has wrongly taught our boy's to not express sadness during childhood, boy's don't cry or being told to man up  are common harmful phrases. This makes them believe that they aren't supposed to show their feelings, and so they grow up as men who don't express how they feel.

Men are not taught how to express their emotions so don't know how to.

Many people perceive that men are weak if they cry or admit to mental health distress, so they bottle their emotions up.

A lot of men do not like talking about their mental health for fear of being stigmatised, judged, ridiculed or even rejected.

Society needs to change the way men's mental health is perceived as if a mental health illness goes untreated it can put the person at high risk of self harm and suicide.  Men have significantly higher rates of suicide compared to women and in the UK, men are 3 times as likely to die by suicide than women. 

Sadly, many men don’t feel it’s safe  to open up about what’s really going on in their lives. Men express their feelings through actions more than through words, so we need to normalise talking about men's mental health. It's important to respond sensitively to someone who seems troubled and not to minimise what they are going through. Stop telling our boy's and men not to cry or to man up when they are opening up about their difficulties, It takes great strength to open up and reach out, it is not a sign of weakness. We need to remind our men that it's ok to talk and seek help.


Dear men, if you are struggling I urge you to speak up and seek help. Please do not suffer in silence, mental health is just as important as our physical health. It's ok to not be ok and there are people out there who will listen and not judge or discriminate.

If you would like to talk to someone on a helpline, there is a fantastic charity called CALM - Campaign Against Living Miserably. They are leading a movement against suicide.  They are a free and confidential helpline and webchat – 7 hours a day, 7 days a week for anyone who needs to talk about life’s problems. You can get to their website by clicking  here.

If you do not live in the UK you can access helplines through Befrienders Worldwide by clicking here.






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