By Joshua Wilson
While mental illnesses affect both men and women, the prevalence of mental diseases in men is often higher than in women. Study shows that the number of suicides by gender men is higher with a 79% suicide rating in New York alone. About 1,290 men kill themselves, about 370 females kill themselves, and only 35% of men actually go out and seek help. Study shows that men’s mental health is more unknown than females' because society thinks men should be brave, strong, and not emotional. Only 35% of men seek help. They feel the need that we cannot talk to anybody without getting looked at as emotionally soft or weak. But for women society wants to help them care about them more than men because they feel as if no one cares about them because they are scared to open up and speak for help because they are vulnerable and get their feelings exposed and used against them. Then they feel like once they blow up and the anger turns into pain they will become the villain and nobody will appreciate them when their alive and well. Study shows that 27 per of men cry once every few months and some men don’t cry at all for fear of being neglected rejected or judged so men just take the pain away by being away from home, drinking alcohol, smoking, etc. the ways you can try to cope with your mental health are you can go to the gym, box, meditate, etc. There was this lady named Norah Vincent who wrote A Self-Made-Man where she decided to be a man for 18 months and wrote a book about the hardships she had to go through. Unfortunately, she ended up taking her own life because was mistreated, so this states that men go through a lot but decide not to talk. Men with mental illnesses are also less likely to have received mental health treatment than women in the past year. However, men are more likely to die by suicide than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some of the signs that men are going through some mental health if he is bound to getting angry easily or drinking or doing drugs more often than usual if they are sad or more distant, trouble sleeping.
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