You may be succesful in your career, relationships, everyday life in general. But what if you don’t feel it? What do we need to feel fulfilled, satisfied….happy ?
Our mental state fluctuates with every experience and interaction we have.
We can feel happy, content, positive, fortunate, powerful one minute, but equally, sad,anxious, angry, afraid the next. All emotions serve important functions in our life experience, all are useful. We should not expect to be happy all the time.
What happens if we struggle with our thoughts and feelings?. As men, we have never been taught how to express our feelings in a meaningful way, almost as if we should not have them.
We therefore adopt the coping strategies we know. Alcohol, drugs, food etc. may offer temporary relief but thoughts don’t go away.
With 3/4 of all suicides being men, we need to find a meaningful way to reduce our mental suffering.