BARRIERS FACED BY YOUNG MEN IN SEEKING PROFESSIONAL HELP FOR MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS

Psychology

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversations. Mental health forms an integral part of the overall health and well-being of people. Men in our country are facing so many issues, but aren’t able to open up and express. This research explored barriers and solutions to professional help seeking for mental health problems among young men. In this study we tried to focus on the deeper understandings of challenges faced by young Indian men in seeking professional help for their mental health concerns. The purpose of this research was to carry out an exploratory study which was qualitative in nature and used thematic analysis as the method for analyzing the data. Data collection took place through virtual one on one semi structured interview. The themes developed were grouped into three major categories, starting with which focused on the issues faced by men in general, the barriers that actually stopped them in seeking professional help and lastly the solutions proposed by the participants. Limitation of this study is that, it being conducted on very few participants which makes it very difficult to generalize to a bigger population.

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