Did you know over six million men suffer from depression per year in the U.S and most of the time male depression often goes under diagnosed? (www.aada.org)

Do you also know what are the causes of male depression?

Childhood abuse, trauma, neglect, social isolation, relationship breakdown, financial problems, and finally personality disorder are the causes for a man to have mental health problems that cause anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, the urge to kill, paranoid, obsessive-compulsive disorder, narcissistic, avoidant, and finally dependent.

This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed in our society since men do so much in order to make the world function. The world was built by men, we need men, we need to make men feel like they are important, special and valuable since men do all the hard jobs in society. Men have done so much work and sacrifice for this country and every single country in the world and we must appreciate every man’s hard work and sacrifices.

Now picture this, what if you were in male depression what should you do to improve your life?

You can either go to therapy, talk to someone you trust who will understand your problems. However, 60% of men don’t like talking about their feelings or problems because they are afraid of the idea that expressing emotion is a sign of weakness or because society has high expectations that men need to always be strong and brave and ever show any emotion or even shed a single tear since men are not suppose to cry in society’s eyes. (lumohealth.care)

I highly recommend you find something that you love to do in your free time that will keep your mind occupied. It can literally be anything like video gaming, going to the gym, drawing, writing down your thoughts in a notebook, create a connect with nature, learn a new skill, focus on yourself become someone of value, get at least eight hours of sleep, eat healthy, strengthen your relationship with God, go to church, pray, have self care days for yourself, never regret a bad experience in your life because you learned something valuable from God, make sacrifices and finally learn to love yourself. (helpguide.org)

I was able to interview three men in my school who understand the topic of men mental health. I pick my favorite answers from all three of them out of the four questions I asked them. Here is what they had to say.

This is what I asked Mr. Martich and this was answer to this question. 60% of men don’t talk about their struggles, how come?

“I just think that it’s never been socially taught to men and to young boys that you should be sharing your feelings and I don’t think men and young boys have been shown valid examples on what that might look like so these 60% that are struggling rather than sharing their feelings they are kind of programmed to kind of go ahead and figure out on their own versus going to someone”. – Mr.Martich

This is what I asked Mr.Merced and this was his answer to this question. Over six million men in the U.S suffer from depression each year, what do you think is the cause for that?

“That’s a tough question, I mean it is a number of factors and I would say that a lot of men feel disillusion about expectations that are placed on them and when I say disillusion I mean that there is a difference between what men think they are going to get for being a certain way and that is fitting a certain gender role and for filling gender roles and what they actually get and so we live in a society where there are a lot of very strict rules that are placed on men and that pressure really does have an affect on us and that is combined with societal expectations such as when you turn a certain age you are suppose to be moved out of your parents house or when you reach another age you should be married it falls into a lot of other things as well sometimes those expectations can be really overwhelming to a point where guys don’t feel so secure as they should”. -Mr.Merced

This is what I asked Mr.Bryer and this was his answer to this question. 80% of suicides are committed by men which is  3.9 times more likely than women, why is that? (afsp.org)

“The why I don’t know. If we knew we probably be able to fix it but we don’t wanna 100% or 50/50 suicides either way I think the thing is the question is getting at is why is it more on men I guess there are different expectations for men and there are different expectations for women. Men and women have been raised in society in different ways. I think women have been traditionally gone through much more hardship than to struggle with it and within that hardship and inequality and men have typically been brought up a little different expectations for them and they have more opportunities to solve things like problems on their own because they have more avenues to solve it more freedom to solve it. So maybe when they can’t find a way out if they can’t find a solution they shield in inadequate would be my guess. But there are different expectations for men and women that’s the thoughts up at the top of my head”. -Mr.Bryer

Remember in the darkness there is always a light that shines within and never ever goes out.

Now what’s your advice to men who are struggling, who are lost, who have no one to talk to, who don’t really know where they fit into society?