Growing into a Masculine Society

      How does gender affect our mental health? do the differences in gender really make a difference in each individuals mental health? Studies say that girls are more likely to have  depression and eating disorders, they are also more likely to engage in suicide attempts. On the other hand boys are more likely to have anger problems and are more likely to commit suicide more frequently than girls. If both sexes have different problems but lead to the same conclusion, what causes these problems? https://www.who.int/gender/other_health/genderMH.pdf https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/gender-disparities-in-psychiatric-conditions/     I think that how kids are raised is a direct problem to mental health. Boys are often angry due to the way they are raised, there told to not cry or show no emotion, so there emotion just builds up until they just blow up, or they are told that they have all these responsibilities and stress...

    Masculinity are the attributes and quality's that are regarded to be characteristics of men.  over the past years "toxic  masculinity" has been one of the main factors in "White Male Suicide", males are statistically more prone to drug overdose and suicide. Us males grow through masculine environments all though child and adult hood, and grow up not knowing what kind of man they are. Is there a problem in the way we raise our men? and why are the problems showing up now? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/toxic-masculinity-history/583411/ https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/      In 2018 men died by suicide 3.5 times more than women, and white males take up 70 percent of suicides. 41 percent of boys in the us feel that they should express anger with violence. I think this is happening due to the amount of pressure parents place upon there children at a young age to be emotionally strong. The way parents raise childre...