#mencancrytoo

[mensmentalhealthmatters]

Dont tell me to be strong.

Let me be weak and sad and cry it all out.

#mentalwellness #burnout #mental health #mencancrytoo #mensmentalhealth #mentally ill #mental instability #mental issues

[nishawadhwa]

It's one of those words that evoke disapproval. Well, criticism is not going to affect one of the stark realities of modern life - increasing suicide rates. While India has a suicide crisis in general, globally, the rate of suicide in males is increasing. There are so many problems because of gender based social conditioning. So many crimes. So much injustice. So much that is lost. If we gotta make the world a better place, we must amend the roots. We must begin with the foundation. Children need to understand the value of emotion. Double tap if you agree or drop in a comment. Thanks! P.S: The conditioning on emotions is different for females (of course I'll write about it). #mentalhealth #mentalheathmatters #endsuicide #stopthehate #stopsuicide #selfcare #selflove #youmatter #youareloved #dontgiveup #tomorrowneedsyou #mencancrytoo #teachingboys #teenagerposts #boyscancry #bigboyscry #poetryinmotion #spokenword #bleedingsoulpoetry #bleedingink #shortpoems #thatvoice #wordgirl https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qdWv_l6Yo/?igshid=1xak4fejr62fz

#mentalhealth #mentalheathmatters #endsuicide #stopthehate #stopsuicide #selfcare #selflove #youmatter #youareloved #dontgiveup #tomorrowneedsyou #mencancrytoo #teachingboys #teenagerposts #boyscancry #bigboyscry #poetryinmotion #spokenword #bleedingsoulpoetry #bleedingink #shortpoems #thatvoice #wordgirl

[inactivefandomblog]

GIF I made for someone on Discord

when live gives you a mallet, make  grown men cry.

#mencancrytoo #balls #rightinthedick #harleyquinn #birdsofprey #birds of prey and the fantabulous emancipation of one harley quinn #harleenquinzell #DC #meme #youvebeenframed

[shawnyseen80]

#mencancrytoo #basketballishard #philadelphia #phillycheesesteak #joelembiid #brotherlylove https://www.instagram.com/p/BxddIccgDAS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p7juewjj048k

#mencancrytoo #basketballishard #philadelphia #phillycheesesteak #joelembiid #brotherlylove

[dragon-mayur]

The Indian society thinks that men can't cry 'cause that's a feminine thing to do. A guy lost his mother, he shouldn't cry. Some guy who was madly in love with a girl lost his love but he can't cry. A dude lost his legs in an accident but he can't cry. I ask why? You want equality, then bring some. girl sees a boy crying, you know what she says? She says "look how week he is, can't handle a little pressure." She was the same girl who was crying a moment before and cut her nerves cuz her boyfriend broke up with her. And did she even asked why the boy was crying? No? He might have lost his mother or failed in an exam but no! She doesn't want to ask that. I condemn this kind of society and culture. . . #mencancry #mencancrytoo #harshreality #bringequality #words https://www.instagram.com/p/BwleuXOHUvK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=147k71g4b8pfu

#mencancry #mencancrytoo #harshreality #bringequality #words

[mensmentalhealthmatters]

It all needs to stop. Men can cry too

Mental health is an actual thing. Men, women, old, young, everyone has emotions and feels sad or anxious or down at times. And you know what? It's ok. It's normal. It's being human. 

We need to stop saying ‘Just be happy’ or even ‘You’re strong enough’ and all the other unhelpful bullshit people say.

No one can just be happy and telling someone who's feeling down to just be happy literally does nothing except make them feel worse about how they are feeling. Fucking stop it. 

Stop telling people they're strong enough. It's ok to not be strong. It's ok to be weak and to need help and to lean on other people and to cry. If we believe we always have to be strong enough then we’re going to let ourselves down because we are human so we are weak and we are not enough on our own. 

And we need to stop the social stigma behind mental disorders and illnesses. So what if I have depression and can’t go to work everyday like most people? So what if I have social anxiety and can’t stand being around people? It's part of being human and it's normal. Our body gets sick, we take care of it, get medicine if we need it. Our mind is ill? We have to keep pushing through pretending we’re fine, and we try to open up at all about we get rejected and shamed on and told we need to get over it. If we go to therapy or take medicine we get shamed and ridiculed on because of that. Oh yeah Karen? What if I told you weren't good enough because you take medicine for your arthritis or high blood pressure or whatever the else there is. 

It needs to fucking stop. Its not ok to treat people like their terrible people for things they can’t even fucking help.

Yes, this culture seems to be the most mental health aware age we’ve had but the shame and stigma are still present. Social media makes it so much easier to spread hate and to bully others than ever before, and seeing other peoples edited fake perfect lives makes us feel so much worse about our own. Girls see impossibly thin bodies of models that have been edited, and feel bad about their own normal body fat and marks. Guys see the “perfect man” who is tall and handsome and muscular and rich and does everything perfectly, and they feel worse about themselves and how they look and what they do.

And we need.to.stop. Imposing this perfect standard upon men. Women’s impossibly perfect standards are talked about a lot more than mens are, and it needs to be brought to the same light. Guys are human like us girls and they are vulnerable and have emotions and get hurt and sad and down like we all do. They get so much pressure and hate from our society. Don’t be short, or too tall: don’t have a normal body with fat on it, be skinny and ripped: be the perfect man, perfect boyfriend, perfect husband: make “enough” money because heaven forbid someone should be “poor”: open the door, or dont, because you might be a creep who rapes women: be masucline, or dont, because ‘toxic mascinaulty’ so you better not dare have your own opinion or exercise any kind of authority because then your ‘part of the patriarchy’ and hate women and think their beneath you. 

I'm so tired of it. So tired of the expectations pushed upon the men of our society. All the women say, where have the good guys gone? They’re being trained from childhood to this wrong, awful conflicting expectation, and so many of them just stay little boys to cope and escape from it, playing their video games, or they turn to drugs or alcohol or they can't deal with it and kill themselves. 

Men can cry. Men can be sad. Men can be weak and vulnerable and talk about their emotions. If women can and it be considered ok, why the fuck can’t men?

If this world is really so for equality, then we need to show men they can be emotional and vulnerable and they can cry.

#mensmentalhealth #mencancrytoo #mental health #mentalwellness #mental heath support #mentally ill #stop the expectations