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In my opinion part of the problem is that media only talks about mental health after someone— typically a male commits a mass shooting. When in reality people that are mentally are significantly more likely to be the victims of gun violence including gun suicide.
I also think the stereotype that girlfriends/wives/partners are expected to help bare the weight of mental health issues is wrong and destructive bc it doesn’t help the guys navigate/address there own mental health if they’re just pushing it off on someone else.
I think some of the hardest times for people is not when they are around others it’s when there alone/board left alone with there thoughts and feelings with nothing left to distract them. Those are the hard times because it requires you to face those issues.
I know from experience both before and after 2/14 that for me those are the hardest times and often when I have had suicidal thoughts which luckily I’ve been able to get help with.
However I never would have opened up about my mental health without extremely supportive/loving friends.
Had those around me not help me realize that extreme exhaustion, lack of appetite, sever lack of motivation, a general lack of interest even in the things I loved most, and wanting to die almost everyday was not normal I might not be here today.
So talk to your friends about how they are really doing— don’t just tweet the phone number for a suicide hotline and think that’s enough because oftentimes those that need help the most are those that are the closest to you because
#MentalHealthMatters
Also I want to reiterate something I’m good now, I got help please know that I am 100% and not going anywhere.
Getting a therapist was the best decision I ever made.
Also when so often the girlfriends/wives/partners are the target.
"BEAR the weight," not "bare."
I only say this because I want to help you be the smartest congressman this century.
It’s toxic and destructive as well as that society expects men to bottle up their emotions and to not cry.
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