Men and burdens?
Have you forgotten to take care of your own mental health??? How long has your mental health been "neglected"? Because physical health is easily visible, it's easier to take care of, right?
Just like your physical health, although mental health is invisible, the symptoms are often discovered late or cause consequences that directly affect your body. Whether male or female, every problem and difficulty experienced affects mental health.
Our lifestyle is difficult to change overnight but you can be influenced and rethink. Research shows that social norms about being a real man unintentionally have a negative impact on men's mental health. Talking numbers:
- 25% of men share their stress with family and friends. - The remaining 75% deal with it by "pretending" everything is fine.
I myself am among the remaining 75%, and perhaps that's why in life I sometimes create irritation and discomfort towards my loved ones.
Sometimes my wife asks me, "Why is the husband so gentle to the whole world, but to the wife, he is often so grumpy, rude, and hot-tempered?" I can't explain why to anyone other than myself. It's okay to be gentle, but how can you treat your wife, the one who sleeps with her head every night, like that?
Managing emotions is never easy, suppressing is not the way to manage. Sometimes just saying it out loud and looking straight at the truth might be better and more reasonable.
What kind of pressure is AE facing? Are any of you falling into the remaining 75% and having problems with emotional management? 1 minute to honestly start....#commentbelow!