Mac looking at mental health and gender
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The topic of mental health is now part of a movement. A campaign to get people talking to doctors and to each other; to end the shame and embarrassment of being mentally unwell. A public lecture this Friday sponsored by McMaster University is continuing that message. And going a step further. Addressing mental health and gender. Maria Hayes reports.
The odds are good. One in five. If it isn’t you, someone very close to you will experience some form of mental illness. Beyond normal acceptance, Dr. Anne Nyetch says there is another element we need to consider: “We want to encourage people to think much more broad spectrum about how mental health is truly part of everyday life. To recognize that there are gender differences. And the way people present is affected by gender.”
Researchers have done numerous studies on mental health and women, even on adolescence. But Hamilton’s McMaster University wants to share an increasing body of work dealing with mental health and men.
Lecture organizer Margaret Shkimba says men, boys and body image will be up for discussion at it’s gender and mental health talk Friday. The event is open to the public as well as students, faculty and health care providers, professionals who are likely the first point of contact: “There’s been so much work done on women and women’s body image but not so much in men. And it’s different. Different motivation. Different reasoning. Different manifestations of how these issues come out. Women are more apt to come and talk about these issues where men to come and speak about depression and the effects of depression or anxiety on their work or on their relationships that sometimes becomes much more difficult.”
Gender & Mental Health Lecture
Friday, November 15th
1 – 2:30
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Rd. S.
RSVP shkimba@mcmaster.ca
