Hall Jr.

Dennis Hall Jr.

Ms. Sanders

ENC2135

13 June 2023

Men’s Mental Health Research

Dr. Mike Parent's analysis of men's mental health has proven to be a common ground

for our industrial beliefs about mental health being taught and thought about today. His paper:

Men's Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviors: An Intersectional Analysis, constructs the

concept of how men's mental health is being less treated when compared to their female

counterparts. The study that he conducted to understand the influence of identities and the

different characteristics that each individual withholds can influence the way mental health is

interpreted and may increase the value we put on it. As stated in the article "Using data from

4,825 U.S. men aged 20 to 59 years, main effects of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, age,

income–poverty ratio, relationship status, depression symptoms, and body mass index were

explored within the sample of men as well as intersections of these predictors with

racial/ethnic group identity." (Parent). Dr. Parent's logos appeal to convey a more fleeting

thought to build a foundation for how he took a specific study will be when detailing the men

that will be studied and how even their sexual orientation, race, etc., will be taken into effect

when discovering the disparities when allowing men mental health as a whole.

Forthright, gender-related disparities have contradicted how we view mental health or

men and the interruptions we take in effect. Although genders can accompany the reason

women consistently seek out health on a public basis, that is still prudent the as the facts are

consistent that men are more likely to commit suicide than women. Much research has been

allocated to help-seeking for men whose social queues may not permit them to seek the help

that is sorely needed. The apparent misunderstandings when discussing men in the smoothest
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instances underline the attitudes and behavior formats. Dr. Mike Parent has referred most of

his work to undergraduate students, the incumbent, and men's socioeconomic status.

The status of intersexuality, when it pertains to men's mental health, has potential

analysis as men that come from different ethnic/racial backgrounds, the disparities start to

appear more and more. The ending on individuals 'Characteristics may guide intervention

when trotting through the developmental stages of help-seeking. "As a hypothetical example,

if extant research shows older men are more likely to seek help, but new intersectional

research identifies that older age is a barrier to seeking help for Black men, then interventions

premised on non-intersectional research may fail to account for the lived experience of older

Black men." (Parent) The goal presented in the study is intersectional identities and

individuals' characteristics as they exist by themselves, which may be a call back to man

seeking help when needed. Research shows that different ranges may be excluded for many

men. The number of pathos and employment develop throughout the study as individuals as

the reluctance some individuals may have, especially if the individual is desperately needed

in a more diverse study to bring about more coherent results.

As the study doubt envelops the ideas of intersectional analysis on men's mental

health, the data points use national sets. There were two levels of analysis being explored in

the present study: "the single intersection of gender and the variables of interest (i.e., the

main effects of each variable across the entire sample of men), and the double intersections of

race/ethnicity and the variables of interest among men." (Parent), As on the examination

between sexual orientations and the men that are seeking help, employees at an impact that

this status may have not the developmental minds of those trying to understand their mental

health, and this is not even related to the ethnic/racial backgrounds these men may come from

that can impact the cross sections of their brains as development gets scattered. Much

research must be done to indicate the double complexes and how the differences in
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characteristics in these single interactions can pose problems to the hypotheses drawn and

leave the data collected moot.

Rob Wang opens with a pathos appeal, painting a picture of himself sitting inside his

car with the suicide prevention hotline dialed in. His talk as he cannot bring himself to make

the call as he says, "Social Stigmas" (Wang). He has been surrounded by and grown into by

the men, and the men around him will not allow him to seek the help he wants as he does not

want to be seen as some whimsical princess that needs saving.

Wang continues that by bringing his ex-girlfriend into the conversation as she is on

the phone, her trying to contact his friends so he does not commit an atrocious act is heroic in

his mind. Up to this point, In Rob Wang's life, others would consider him a success as he has

worked with Fortune 500 companies selling equipment witty to many zeros. As the sale put

him in a position to live a free and luxurious life, although his fanatical status grew, Wang

illustrates that with all the money, he still wakes up numb ad empty as life has become a

meaningless pit. As Wang tells the audience, "The male suicide rate is skyrocketing, and it is

at the highest it has ever been" (Wang). "Fatal male suicides are up 41%" (World Health

Organization 2019 Database).

The idea that suicide starts in mind is a general reminder of how to indicate the

development of suicidal emotions and actions through lifetimes of conformation pain, forcing

its way into a reckless abandonment. He brings a connection into how many people believe

that taking a baby aspirin prevents strokes and that the people who know this believe that 48

hours before having stroke symptoms, taking aspirin will limit the chance of a stroke. Rob

then turns to the fact that this information is widely known and that since individuals that act

upon those institutions do it, why not can it be the same for suicide- logos-? Rob asks, "What

thoughts are causing men to kill themselves" (Wang). He transitions as he asks the audience

what characteristics of being masculine are- being strong, being a protector, a leader-
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courageous, independent, emotionless, and so on. He then turns to the understanding that he

grew up being old and that having emotions is for two demographics, school girls and

women-folk, two peas of the same pod that he was not a part of, and that what being

emotionless when in scenarios of raising a roller coaster at a theme park, or fighting, or even

death that emotional should not be displayed and that it was would keep everything less of a

man. As a man, the need to endure and grit teeth ad push through tough times, as are the

expenses that build the analysis of masculine traits being upheld by every man everywhere,

as young boys are being told. Rob conveys the sense that he is happy that that chapter of his

life is over with and that when he wakes up in the morning, he has found meaning in things

that, nonetheless to say can be considered artificial to others. As the Ethos present gives the

audience a sense of relief as they feel the pain and turmoil Rob Wang expounded on, the

individuals present can only sigh in comfort at the stories and emotions bottled up in a way

intrinsic to his life.

Rob states that life events have a chain reaction with suppression that, with logos,

goes hand in hand with the suppression of more emotions. Whether it is the purpose-taking

individuals who look in the mirror daily, their best friend, or even a random stranger, the

influence that hard times can bring is a catalyst for more suicidal thoughts and emptiness.

Rob sounds, "At one point, I thought suicide was the only reasonable thing" (Wang). As he

says, the features of shoe listening change as they cannot believe his belief that suicide can be

the only option for someone who may feel they have no options. Research out of Fordham

University partake that "men that reject crying, being moody, or having emotions at all are 2

½ times more likely to die by suicide" (Wang). Wang paints a picture of this being the

groundwork for these stages of suppression and how the lament itself can be cardiac for the

better. "Suicide is the biggest killer of males 10 - 24" (CDC et al. 2019). These numbers can

ponder what individuals feel and understand as someone can see them as saying, "Who am I,
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in these 1.38 million suicide attempts each year" (Wang). Wang explains that to hider such an

act induces only needs to interfere with one part of the cycle, one that can be the breaking

point for those on the fringe. He represses by design that instead of coming home after a hard

day and turning on the television to binge-watch a show until you have passed out drooling,

he instead picks up the phone and calls some trustworthy and says, "Hey, Umm, today was

tough, it really hurt, I feel kinda alone right now, and I could use someone to talk to about

this" (Wang). With his cardinal card of masculinity revoked, he talks about something that

would never have been discussed unless he was taken to infer one of the hindering steps.

The apology that he gives to his ex-girlfriend is begging as he puts her thrush loads of

dedication to the man he has become now; the sorry he tributes to her and those he has

spoken to is one when he can finally say he gets it; he understands what having someone to

talk to feels like, and what having someone to repress. As the applause roar, he leaves,

inviting us to think, "What difference can I make, the difference I can make" (Wang).

All together, these sources contribute to the understanding that individuals have

different experiences, and to understand those experiences, the need to talk and research is

essential when truly wanting to process the emotions of masculine fires that need to be put

out.
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Work Cited

Parent, Mike C et al. “Men's Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviors:

An Intersectional Analysis.” American Journal of Men's Health vol.

12,1 (2018): 64-73. doi:10.1177/1557988315625776

Wang, Rob. “On Masculinity and Mental Health.” Www.ted.com, TedX, 12 Jan. 2022,

www.ted.com/talks/rob_wang_on_masculinity_and_mental_health. Accessed 13 June

2023.