Psychology Officially Declares Being Manly ‘Harmful’ to Your Mental Health

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traditional masculinity is, on the whole, harmful."

Updated guidelines issued this month by the American Psychological Association advise mental health professionals to consider traditional masculinity as psychologically harmful.


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Psychology Officially Declares Being Manly ‘Harmful’ to Your Mental Health
Pluralist09 JAN 2019



[paste:font size="5"]"...traditional masculinity is, on the whole, harmful."

Updated guidelines issued this month by the American Psychological Association advise mental health professionals to consider traditional masculinity as psychologically harmful.[/paste:font]

The reported suggests applying the same kind of gender-sensitive lens on men that psychologists have for decades been applying to women and gender-nonconforming groups.


"The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful," the guidelines propose.


The new approach was led by Fredric Rabinowitz, a psychology doctor at University of Redlands, California, who argues that an inclination towards self-sufficiency and self-reliance leads men to bottle up their anxieties and stress.


“Because of the way many men have been brought up—to be self-sufficient and able to take care of themselves—any sense that things aren’t OK needs to be kept secret,” Rabinowitz is quoted as saying in the guidelines. “Part of what happens is men who keep things to themselves look outward and see that no one else is sharing any of the conflicts that they feel inside. That makes them feel isolated. They think they’re alone. They think they’re weak. They think they’re not OK. They don’t realize that other men are also harboring private thoughts and private emotions and private conflicts.”

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[Anti-Anime]

This country wants to breed nothing but bytches not raising my future children in this mess

 

[Citi Trends]

spoiler that abomination

 

[newworldafro]

Be a heterosexual masculine man in 2019, brehs.

 

[MaxPain]

Guess im harmful as hell

 

[horizon]

yall will be in the next gender war thread crying about men's issues and how nikkas suffer in silence because they cant show weakness, cant cry, mental health in the black community aint taken serious blah blah and then when actual professionals in the field say "yeah some of the ideas instilled into men are potentially harmful to their mental health" yall bytch and moan about being neutered

 

[MaxPain]

yall will be in the next gender war thread crying about men's issues and how nikkas suffer in silence because they cant show weakness, cant cry, mental health in the black community aint taken serious blah blah and then when actual professionals in the field say "yeah some of the ideas instilled into men are potentially harmful to their mental health" yall bytch and moan about being neutered

Found the first fatherless foot-stool

 

[killacal]

I hope yall are looking into exit strategies

 

[FeverPitch2]

yall will be in the next gender war thread crying about men's issues and how nikkas suffer in silence because they cant show weakness, cant cry, mental health in the black community aint taken serious blah blah and then when actual professionals in the field say "yeah some of the ideas instilled into men are potentially harmful to their mental health" yall bytch and moan about being neutered

None of the shyt that's labeled in this article as "harmful" has anything to do with masculinity.
What this bullshyt article is actually talking about is the way men are socialized, which is harmful.
This article was written specifically so silly mfs can point to it and says "see! there's something wrong with you!"
I literally just called this in last post I wrote.

 

[The Fade]

PEople who say stoicism is bad have never read Meditions and think stoicism is standing in the corner with your arms crossed, hair flowing in the wind while “being guarded” for the sake of it

Stoicism is literally not worrying about what is out of your control and not flaring your emotions like a child or being a chatty patty. How are people gonna complain there’s too many manchildren but bash the things that makes a sufficient man a man?

Actually read the fukking book meditations, it has helped so many lost men find themselves

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Where do you guys find these sites? Look at some of the stories on there. I don't know what that picture has to do with the original article. It's almost like it's there to give a false impression of the content of the [original] article.



"encouraging the beneficial aspects of masculinity"

On cursory glance of the actual APA article:

But something is amiss for men as well. Men commit 90 percent of homicides in the United States and represent 77 percent of homicide victims. They’re the demographic group most at risk of being victimized by violent crime. They are 3.5 times more likely than women to die by suicide, and their life expectancy is 4.9 years shorter than women’s. Boys are far more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder than girls, and they face harsher punishments in school—especially boys of color.

APA’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Boys and Men strive to recognize and address these problems in boys and men while remaining sensitive to the field’s androcentric past. Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.

First, clinicians must be aware of dominant masculine ideals, and cognizant of their own potential biases. Second, they must recognize the integrated nature of masculinity, and how factors ranging from spirituality to ability status to age and ethnicity interact. Mental health professionals must also understand how power, privilege and sexism work both by conferring benefits to men and by trapping them in narrow roles. They should consider how stoicism and a reluctance to admit vulnerability hamstring men in personal relationships, and they should combat these forces, in part, by encouraging fathers to engage more fully with their children.

Clinicians should also understand broader institutional issues and support educational systems responsive to the needs of men. Boys who drop out of school are more likely to be unemployed than those who get to high school or college graduation, so addressing school-related challenges early can head off lifelong problems, according to the guidelines. Mental health professionals should strive to reduce aggression and violence and to understand the precursors to substance use and suicide. They should encourage men to protect their own health. And they should offer services sensitive to the socialization that men have undergone, while fighting against homophobia, transphobia, racial bias and other types of discrimination in institutions such as the criminal justice system.

Some of this involves outreach. Efforts like the National Institute of Mental Health’s “Real Men. Real Depression” campaign can normalize help-seeking by showing tough guys struggling. When men do seek help, clinicians need to be aware that aggression and other externalizing symptoms can mask internalizing problems, Levant says. From early childhood on, boys are encouraged to push down any emotion other than anger, he says, which interrupts boys’ emotional development.

The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful. Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors. For example, a 2011 study led by Kristen Springer, PhD, of Rutgers University, found that men with the strongest beliefs about masculinity were only half as likely as men with more moderate masculine beliefs to get preventive health care.

This masculine reluctance toward self-care extends to psychological help. Research led by Omar Yousaf, PhD, found that men who bought into traditional notions of masculinity were more negative about seeking mental health services.

For this reason, mental health professionals need to be aware that men are often reluctant to admit vulnerability.

“Because of the way many men have been brought up—to be self-sufficient and able to take care of themselves—any sense that things aren’t OK needs to be kept secret,” Rabinowitz says. “Part of what happens is men who keep things to themselves look outward and see that no one else is sharing any of the conflicts that they feel inside. That makes them feel isolated. They think they’re alone. They think they’re weak. They think they’re not OK. They don’t realize that other men are also harboring private thoughts and private emotions and private conflicts.”

What is disagreeable about the above? Could someone explain? I usually see a lot of complaining about the lack of serious concern for the unique problems men face or about the lack of care for the mental health of men from some people on here and from supposed "MRAs" and now it's time to get mad? Was that just concern trolling?

 

[Hannibal Fox]

PEople who say stoicism is bad have never read Meditions and think stoicism is standing in the corner with your arms crossed, hair flowing in the wind while “being guarded” for the sake of it

Stoicism is literally not worrying about what is out of your control and not flaring your emotions like a child or being a chatty patty. How are people gonna complain there’s too many manchildren but bash the things that makes a sufficient man a man?

Actually read the fukking book meditations, it has helped so many lost men find themselves

Was gonna say the bolded unfortunately it seems whoever wrote the article was more interested in gotchas and potshots rather than actual facts.....it's the pluralist so

Edit:

APA GUIDELINES for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men

 

[LordLyons]

Being male is already being seen as a biological disorder. Being a man is about to be illegal

PIV is always rape, ok?

This is how it is going to be in the future. Guarantee it.

 

[The Fade]

Where do you guys find these sites? Look at some of the stories on there. I don't know what that picture has to do with the original article. It's almost like it's there to give a false impression of the content of the [original] article.



"encouraging the beneficial aspects of masculinity"

On cursory glance of the actual APA article:









What is disagreeable about the above? Could someone explain? I usually see a lot of complaining about the lack of serious concern for the unique problems men face or about the lack of care for the mental health of men from some people on here and from supposed "MRAs" and now it's time to get mad? Was that just concern trolling?

Misunderstanding what stoicism is discredits this whole piece for me

 

[Another Man]

GET THESE fukkIN fakkitS ALL THE WAY THE fukk OUTTA HERE