Orientation and education that is empowering, not condescending is key. What these findings highlight is that GPs should actively help men through the ‘foreign’ therapy process, providing validation that it takes a while to settle on a psych that feels like a good fit. A shit therapy experience confirms doubts some had about help-seeking & reinforce any thoughts of reluctance to open up in the first place. Some men enter therapy with uncertainty about help-seeking, overcoming structural and attitudinal barriers to even get there.
We found that amongst men who had previously received therapy, ⬆ dissatisfaction with previous therapy was understandably associated with ⬆ doubts about effectiveness of treatment, which in turn was linked directly with a ⬆ reluctance to disclose future distress to a GP. Today is one of my favourites where we surveyed guys to explore the link between satisfaction with previous therapy, believing therapy can even work for them and then future willingness to disclose distress to a GP. Zac Seidler Simon Rice Kylie King and John Oliffe The Resisting-Reckoning-Responding theory will enhance the identification and treatment of young men’s anxiety by community and practitioners alike, to drastically improve the mental health trajectories across their lives. In overcoming norms of stoicism, independence and emotional restrictiveness, these young men inevitably became more open to and accepting of peer-based and professional help-seeking. Young men were forced to renegotiate and reframe parts of their masculine and cultural identities which conflicted with their anxiety experiences in order to thrive. From being unaware or avoiding anxiety in the resisting phase, facing up to it in reckoning phase, and an eventual integration and acceptance in the responding phase, this journey was long, hard fought and indeed ongoing. Resisting-Reckoning-Responding (or the Triple-R Anxiety model) is a three-process theory which navigates how young men’s anxiety, and their grappling with it, may manifest overtime. We distilled young men’s experiences to develop the first ever theory of young men’s anxiety. In a world-first study published today in Sociology of Health and Illness, we spoke to a diverse group of 25 young men and explored, in-depth, their experiences of #anxiety.
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