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Men’s Mental Health Is Important

Mental health tips for men.
• Have compassion for yourself.
• stop numbing yourself.
• practice consistency to establish normalcy in your life.
• Seek professional help.
• start healing process whenever you are ready.

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Coppercoil · M
Amxiety runs in my family. I have cousins, one already dead because of drug and alcohol abuse and two more at deaths door because they were taught from a young age that only crazy people need help for mental stuff. My mom worked at a hospital so she made it easier for me to accept and get help. But they will drink themselves to death trying to self medicate themselves out of a spiral that's taken control of and literally ruined their lives. Its sad, really sad and such a waste.
Harlow · 31-35, F
@Coppercoil Yes, very sad indeed. Anxiety is such a silent killer. Some people have to hit rock bottom with any additions they tried to block it out with to finally get help if they have a good support circle. But like you said, some people drink themselves to death, maybe because it’s too much and they just couldn’t see how their life could be any better, and the negativity they faced with mental health wouldn’t let them know they can be helped,

Schizophrenia runs in my mom’s family. She has it, her mom had it an aunt had it, and one of my cousins have it. There was a lot of stigma with it even from the family. Certain so called family members treated our mom different along with my sis & I. It was like we had our mother’s illness too, and they thought they could catch it somehow and didn’t want to get involved when mom went off her meds and had mental episodes. As kids my sis & I had to just deal with it. But even my mom didn’t have any positivity towards her own kids mental health. She called me a crybaby all the time and told me to never come to her for anything emotional. She has loads of mood swings. I had to teach myself about mental health.
Coppercoil · M
@Harlow I am really sorry you've had your own family struggles with mental illness. Makes you grow up fast. Just all makes me really grateful I met you, if that makes sense.