Mental health Monday: solo dates
Psa: I'm not a medical trained doctor or mental health expert. Just someone who wants to give tips and talk openly About men's mental health Men are suffering in silence, and the silence isn’t accidental. It’s learned. Conditioned. Reinforced. From a young age, most of us are taught that our value is conditional: be useful, be strong, don’t complain, don’t need too much, don’t take up emotional space. Love is something you earn by performing correctly. Fail at that, and you’re invisible at best, contemptible at worst. So we adapt. We grind ourselves into dust. We numb out with work, porn, booze, doomscrolling, or rage. We chase productivity like it’s salvation and confuse exhaustion for virtue. Somewhere along the line, self-denial became synonymous with discipline, and cruelty toward ourselves got rebranded as “mental toughness.” And the internet has happily monetized that wound. The modern masculinity grift thrives on insecure men who are desperate for structure and validati...
