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Men& #39;s Mental Health
Sexual Abuse
A lot of things that they don& #39;t tell you about being a boy, being an adolescent and growing into a man
Men& #39;s Mental Health
Sexual Abuse
A lot of things that they don& #39;t tell you about being a boy, being an adolescent and growing into a man
Being a boy you& #39;re raised to always believe that you need to be tough, that you have to mask your emotions or else you& #39;re perceived as weak, and this cycle is difficult to break, because the people who teach it to us are related to us, or they& #39;re our role models on TV
There are-
There are-
hardly any role models on TV that teach young boys about being compassionate or that it& #39;s okay to feel or to cry or to like things that other boys don& #39;t like.
When you& #39;re a boy growing into a man, you& #39;re going to be called a "pussy" more times than you can count, over pretty-
When you& #39;re a boy growing into a man, you& #39;re going to be called a "pussy" more times than you can count, over pretty-
much everything.
A lot of boys are raised to shelter their emotions and it turns into a lot of emotional suppression that bursts and causes violent tendencies, hence the stereotype that boys are violent, I grew up being told to never let anyone see my emotions and it took me-
A lot of boys are raised to shelter their emotions and it turns into a lot of emotional suppression that bursts and causes violent tendencies, hence the stereotype that boys are violent, I grew up being told to never let anyone see my emotions and it took me-
down a really dark path that hurt friends, family, and the people that I would date. Things I& #39;ve been working to unteach myself.
When boys do something wrong they& #39;re met with "boys will be boys" so we are often put in a position where we are taught that we don& #39;t need to be-
When boys do something wrong they& #39;re met with "boys will be boys" so we are often put in a position where we are taught that we don& #39;t need to be-
our own perception of ourselves.
Realistically if you look at support groups for men, the results are scarce, we don& #39;t have a lot of support and it causes a dramatic recoil of suicide and depression in men.
We are taught that our purpose is to provide and that if you don& #39;t-
Realistically if you look at support groups for men, the results are scarce, we don& #39;t have a lot of support and it causes a dramatic recoil of suicide and depression in men.
We are taught that our purpose is to provide and that if you don& #39;t-
then you& #39;re not considered a real man, because a "real man" provides for his family.
The media, TV, our families, our role models, they all feed in to this idea that a "man" can only be one thing, one stereotype-
The media, TV, our families, our role models, they all feed in to this idea that a "man" can only be one thing, one stereotype-
someone who can fix cars, build a house, hunt, smokes, drinks, a handyman, is a stone wall of emotion, has lots of sex with lots of beautiful women, loves violence and is muscular and well built.
That& #39;s what the world tries to teach us that we should be
That we can& #39;t be-
That& #39;s what the world tries to teach us that we should be
That we can& #39;t be-
