A Comprehensive Review on Men’s Mental Health and Social Reasons Behind it

Abstract

This article provides a general review of literature and summary of deteriorating conditions of men’s mental health and addresses the social reasons behind it like types of masculinity, gender roles etc. It also aims to spread awareness and elicit sensitivity towards the alarming issue of men’s mental health crisis by exploring topics like masculinity and its types. Men’s mental health is named as a silent crisis widely because of the inability of most men to express their insecurities. This topic has a lack of social awareness and sensitivity which is the main cause of the problem. We live in a world with a population of 8.2 billion, with a male population of 4,153,800,966 that is, 50.5% and female population of 4,078,798,820 which is 49.5% (Worldometer,2024). On a world level, suicide rate among males in 2022 was approximately four times higher than the rate among females. Males make up 50% of the population but nearly 80% of suicides (Center for Disease control and Prevention, 2024). Numbers clearly project the acute need to focus on this less recognised topic.