I also believe that it works against men as well as women. Women are more likely to seek help for mental/emotional problems, from various articles I've read through the years. It also appears that the common belief that a "man just needs to blow off some steam" is frequently applied until the man blowing off steam ends up in jail or prison rather than the psych ward, that's just conjecture on my part.
We had an event that rocked my community a few years ago, a man shot and killed his wife, then the EMT that came to her aid. It turned out that he firmly believed hostile aliens from another planet had taken over their bodies, he had been delusional for some time before this event. A woman would have probably already found herself in the psych ward before the murders took place.
But then again I truly believe, and have seen this happen in my own family, that women will be drugged out of their minds to shut them up if they suffer from anything that is likely to bring any embarrassment mental health wise, even if their actual malady doesn't need extreme drug treatment. I know this especially happened 25 years ago and before. This is devastating to the point of lives being literally destroyed.
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