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In my experience, as a man, this simply doesn’t happen.

Men are rejected by both men and women when they’re emotionally vulnerable.

Source: failed to complete suicide in 2014. Lost 95% of my friends, including ones that were active in an org that supposedly worked to prevent suicide.

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jackoneill@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Same in my experience

Show emotion, get beat down and ridiculed

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- HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t think anyone said anything to me directly; they just ghosted me. I’d almost rather have the verbal and emotional beat down so that you know what’s happening.
  
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I hear you. I’m struggling with my mental health daily since I was 19, decades ago. 0 friends. I didn’t have many before but lost the few I had once I went through a crisis.

Lesson learned: bottle it all up, definitely don’t bring it up in, well, any circumstances at all, and you’re golden. Struggling/weak? Garbage that’s only fit to be disposed of.

And that is today in our very “educated and evolved” West. If things were even worse decades ago I don’t even want to know.

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- Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The therapist is basically the safest person to bring it up to
  
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