Happy, confident, positive, useful, included, loved?…What if you don’t?
Financial success, family, relationships, social standing do not guarantee happiness.
We can feel happy, positive, in control one minute, then sad, anxious, angry, and out of control the next. All emotions serve important functions, all are useful. We just need to understand them and keep them in context.
As men, we struggle with difficult feelings, and typically never shown how to express them in a meaningful way. The coping strategies we adopt are at best, temporary distractions.
Alcohol, drugs, food etc. will never provide long term solutions.
With 3/4 of all suicides being men, we need to find a meaningful way to reduce our mental suffering.