IMO There is a deep social stigma to seeking help in general, but mental health seems to be more pronounced in how it’s perceived as weakness.
You have the overt “be a man” kind of toxicity that exists but there is a more insidious undercurrent in some cultures as a whole that makes it seem equally unacceptable.
The insidious part is the subtlety and the inclusion that even talking about how you aren’t supposed to talk about it considered the same kind of weakness, making it self-reinforcing.
IMO There is a deep social stigma to seeking help in general, but mental health seems to be more pronounced in how it’s perceived as weakness.
You have the overt “be a man” kind of toxicity that exists but there is a more insidious undercurrent in some cultures as a whole that makes it seem equally unacceptable.
The insidious part is the subtlety and the inclusion that even talking about how you aren’t supposed to talk about it considered the same kind of weakness, making it self-reinforcing.