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The statistics around men's mental health

Suicide

Drugs and Alcohol

Drugs and Alcohol

  1. Three times as many men as women die by suicide.
  2. Men aged 40-49 have the highest suicide rates in the UK.

Drugs and Alcohol

Drugs and Alcohol

Drugs and Alcohol

  1. Men are more likely to use alcohol and drugs as a way to cope with depression.

Therapy

Drugs and Alcohol

Depression

  1. Men are less likely to access psychological therapies than women: only 36% of referrals to talking therapies are from men.

Depression

Men don't talk

Depression

  1. 191,000 men a year report stress, depression or anxiety caused or made worse by work.
  2. 4 in 10 men don't discuss mental health.

Men don't talk

Men don't talk

Men don't talk

  1. 29% of men say there too embarrassed to speak about it while 20% say there is a negative stigma on the issue. 
  2. The biggest cause of mental health issues in mens lives are work 32%, their financies 31% and their health 23%.

Social worries

Men don't talk

Men don't talk

  1. 37% of men say social media has a negative or low impact on how they feel.
  2. The number of men who are worries about their appearence has risen from 18% to 23%.

Domestic Abuse

  1. 2022/2023 show that 1 in 3 victims of domestic abuse are male equating to 751,000 men.
  2. 1 in 7 men will be a victim of domestic abuse in their lifetime.
  3. Of domestic abuse crimes recorded by the police, 25% were committed against men.
  4. Only 4.8% of victims of domestic abuse being supported by local domestic services are men according to SafeLives data. This highlights how few men are being supported for local domestic abuse services.
  5. 58.9% of the men who call the ManKind Initiative helpline have never spoken to anyone before about the abuse they are suffering and 64% would have not called if the helpline was not anonymous.

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