{"id":5428,"date":"2022-11-23T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2022-12-02T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T09:56:49","slug":"tricity-mens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/tricity-mens-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricity Men’s Mental Health: Who the Hell do You Think You are not to Cry, Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Andre Agassi, Michael Jordan, Steve Smith \u2013 they have various nicknames, Agassi had two nicknames one of them was The Punisher;\u00a0 Jordan had a dozen monikers, one of them was Superman;\u00a0 Washington and Gandhi were known the \u2018Father of the nation\u2019 of the US and India respectively. All these great men and sporting personalities cried, yet we generally believe men don\u2018t cry.<\/p>\n

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It is that very reason men\u2019s mental health issues are never spoken about\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in our conventional Indian homes. Men were the bread-earners, so while they went out, women took care of homes. Now the equations are changing, work distinction is blurring and so is a man\u2019s capacity to hold the fort.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn today\u2019s times, a man confronts a myriad of problems<\/a><\/strong> ranging from social to psychological issues which gives rise to stress, the gap between what was to be achieved and what one could achieve,\u201d says Dr. Mayank Bibra, Insight-Brain and Mind Clinic, Chandigarh. However, he stresses mental health is not gender or age-specific, the issues may be different when seen practically.<\/p>\n

How has this awareness of mental health issues<\/a><\/strong> come about in men? There is more awareness now through social media. Men are seeking help. \u201cLack of energy affects their work and their relationships. More and more men take to substance use\/dependence (which was earlier called substance abuse),\u201d says Dr Simi Waraich, one of the leading psychiatrists in the Tricity. \u201cMen have the pressure of bringing money home. The work-from-home<\/a> <\/strong>culture has exasperated men and women alike, there are more issues now with men having to share responsibilities with women, like looking after kids, old parents, etc,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Men don\u2019t cry is the norm we\u2019ve always heard while growing up which resulted in men not seeking medical help. \u201cThis mentality is true for tier two and tier three towns and cities; in urban culture, a man is accompanied by his wife or parents to seek help,\u201d says Dr Bibra.<\/p>\n

However, a still relevant aspect in this context\u00a0 especially men in India is the male sufferer immediately questions, ‘you think I am mad?’ In the case of men, they don’t want to accept the mental health issue, while if the sufferer is a woman, it is the other way round, people around her impose on her that she is mad.<\/p>\n

\u201cMen who have mental health issues generally don\u2019t realise or acknowledge the problem, when they do, it\u2019s already late. They suffer badly, but they don\u2019t share,\u201d says Tanveer Thakur, a\u00a0 keen observer of social issues, based in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n

So , does seeking psychiatrist’s help always come to your rescue? \u201cMental health practitioners mostly recommend lifestyle changes which if not done aggravates the problem”, says Thakur.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother matter of concern is late marriages, men and women are getting married in their forties, they find it difficult to handle children, the rigidity of their partners, and other underlying issues,\u201d says Waraich, as one of the reasons with men and women floundering in marriages and affecting mental health.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the time, a man or a woman is not reporting physical abuse in a marriage because of fear of children being affected which is adding to the problem,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Andre Agassi, Michael Jordan, Steve Smith \u2013 they have various nicknames, Agassi had two nicknames one of them was The Punisher;\u00a0 Jordan had a dozen monikers, one of them was Superman;\u00a0 Washington and Gandhi were known the \u2018Father of the nation\u2019 of the US and India respectively. All these … <\/p>\n

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