About the High Suicide Rate of Men in the World

This article is about men, for women. Since I’m a woman myself and can’t truly know about being a man, this article is about ways that we women can try to perceive and implement for the hopeful betterment of men, wholesome men that is. 

When I found out that men were dying from suicide more than women, I had what was among the greatest shocks of my life. Why was this such a shock? Well, because they are the “tough ones and the stronger ones” as if not human at all.

But was this the very reason why this rate was so high amongst men? They’re perceived to be stronger and tougher, which implies that we expect them to have a handle on everything. Are we disregarding their humanity just because their bodies are made to be the stronger version?

A Man is a Human Being First

Just because their physical bodies are stronger doesn’t mean they have a superpower to override their emotional selves or their mental selves. “Men don’t cry.” the world says. What’s a man to do when his humanity needs a good cry? And when he feels shame for needing to cry?

How could he not feel like less of a man when it’s been drilled in him that he can’t and shouldn’t cry? This is among the grossest practices of society. Is this the cost of being in a patriarchal world? That men have no right to express emotional suffering? And that women own all emotions? Which can work against women as well in some cases, like professional settings.

These concepts are killing our humanity. Women being treated like they are only their emotions, while men walk around being treated as if they have no emotions. Women birth baby boys, and women raise boys to be men.

This makes living in a patriarchal world ironic. My only point here though is that we women should ensure that we raise our boys to be free to feel their feelings. And most importantly teach them that their worth is never based on what they accomplish or possess. That they will be fully men regardless of what they will or will not have. Teaching them that they have every right to feel their emotions.

Actions are made by emotions and thoughts

However, with a right comes a responsibility. It is essential to balance this practice with teaching our little boys that emotions are made to be felt, not to be acted upon. In that, if they’re feeling anger, they should not identify with the anger. They should not think they are their anger, that, ‘I am angry’, they should instead practice saying ‘I feel anger’ so that they do not act upon what they’re feeling because they think they are one with that emotion.

But this is not for little boys only, it’s for little girls as well. Which brings me to the point of not demonizing men when feeling angry. Not propagating that they are violent and uncontrollable beings. Or that they are not strong when showing vulnerability. Women make the world as well. Women and men make each other.

No good action can come from unpleasant emotions, only unpleasant acts are birthed from identifying with unpleasant emotions. Teach little boys, as well as girls, that they have emotions but they are not their emotions. 

You don’t need to hear men express their feelings like a woman would, but ensure that you are aware that men are feeling human beings. Bring it to your awareness to bring it to life in you, so that whatever they may say is regarded as intertwined with their feelings.

Men don’t need to express their emotions like women. But, learn how to hear the emotions in their words and how they express themselves.

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