Men are much less likely to seek mental health help than women

Date: Monday 12 Jun 2017

Men are far less likely to seek medical support for a mental health problem than women, new figures reveal.

The survey found that a third of women, compared with a quarter of men, had told friends or family about their mental health problem within a month of it arising. More than a third of men, compared with a quarter of women, either waited more than two years or chose never to tell friends or family about their problem.

“Mental health is so central to our experience of being alive that if we’re ever to rise to the challenge of preventing mental health problems, it will be because men feel more able to share when they are vulnerable,”

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