Yet, it's not exactly talked about a lot, especially among men. Of all the people in our society, men's emotions are looked after the least, and we're often looked down on for having them. We're told to hold it in and suffer in silence by a society that looks down on men who express their emotions. Women will often "get the ick" from a man if he expresses negative emotions such as depression or sadness. 

Meanwhile, men never learned how to express emotions in a fashion that isn't too much yet isn't too little. It seems no matter what we do, talking about our feelings is oddly alienating, and so we bottle them up. 

That's not to say there aren't people or groups out there who want to make men feel better and help them along on their emotional journey, but these can sometimes be few and far between, and even then, it takes a lot for men to want to reach out to them. 

So what do we do? How do we stop men from killing themselves? 

The answer is actually easy; it's getting society to go along with it that's the hard part. 

Part of the big issue is that our society has forgotten about the mental makeup of men. In fact, it approaches men's mental health the same way it approaches women's mental health. It values talking about your feelings, working through your past traumas, and surrounding yourself with a support system. 

This is not how men operate, at least not as a general rule. Where women value and find purpose in relationships and love, men find value in accomplishment and respect. 

If you want to snap a man out of his depression...give him a problem to solve and then once he solves it, give him the respect he deserves for his work and accomplishment. When another problem arises, let him know that he's the guy that's trusted to solve it. 

This man now has purpose and respect. He is necessary. He is relied on and wanted for his capability. 

Here's an interesting factoid you may not have known. Most male suicides don't occur during the highly chaotic years of teenage or young adult life as you might believe. Most suicides occur around the late 70s...retirement age. Men often find themselves phasing out of usefulness around this time. Their bodies fail them and they can't move, lift, or work like they used to. 

The world passes them by, they become increasingly irrelevant, and soon the depression gets the better of them. 

Usefulness drives men. Uselessness kills them. 

So that's easy then, right? Give men a purpose and respect them when they accomplish things under the umbrella of that purpose. 

Easier said than done. 

Right now we live in a society that is consistently devaluing men to the point where some young women wonder why they're even needed at all. Commercials and television shows are constantly making us out to be the idiots or the villains. Men play second fiddle in their own movies to bait and switch women. 

We're rejected from hiring opportunities because DEI policies require a more diverse staff, making the skills and talent we honed useless. We're in constant danger of saying or doing the wrong thing that could ultimately ruin our lives from one person who took offense. If we enter a divorce court, the chance we'll lose everything, including our children, is unforgivably high. 

If we're being honest with ourselves, men are considered lower class. We're the scapegoats, whipping boys, and the societal patsy. 

In order for the men's mental health crisis in America to get better, society has to rediscover its respect for men and begin trying to better understand them. However, the trend for mainstream society currently is to look at men as awful creatures who need to be brought down a peg or eight. As it continues to sport this attitude, society loses more and more of its knowledge about what drives men, and in turn, what drives society forward. 

At this time, I'm asking for cats to bark. Market forces won't allow anything else to happen in terms of their views on men right now. There's too much money to be made off misandry and it's politically and socially safer to consider men second-class citizens. 

It's tragic because there's really no reason for that to be the case, but the men vs. women thing sure does create a solid voting bloc for Democrats.