Get Involved via Social Interest Groups
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/07/26
Men and mental health, we is a guy supposed to find support? I think about the Social Interest Groups (SIGs) hosted by The Good Men Project. It is important to recognize the importance of consistent, regular, and deep conversations with people of like mind. A group based around men’s mental health is one route.
Social Interest Groups (SIGs) are a place where people with similar interests, or intellectual engagements, social ties, and emotional commitments can virtually meet. The SIGs are an aspect of men having an outlet not only with other men but also with women on the same telephone line listening and commenting, which permits open expression and disarming discussions to emerge in an organic way.
If you haven’t looked at the Social Interest Groups, I suggest looking into them. They give a way to open up. It also provides a channel for learning about concerns of other individuals and difficulties in their lives.
Those contexts and environments, and implied emotional commitments can over time show the common themes in the life of ordinary people working through problems current in their lives. Those current problems are not necessarily solved, or even sufficiently covered or spoken about at the moment.
However, there is a sense of feeling less bound by the moment and the constraints of time to reflect, consider, analyze, and come together in a community of people with like mind to provide not solace or solutions but mutual sympathy and solidarity.
I find them helpful for the realization of honest, open conversation, which modern television news channels do not necessarily provide. The morning news media is degenerative from prior standards. The 21st-century is a century of atomization, at least in the early 21st century.
The atomization of people probably makes them feel alone. The Good Men Project effort is to bring us together through channels. It is one way to broach uncommon subjects for more people, not necessarily topics new to the older generations. They had other problems.
But we modern people have our own as well, which are distinct but not less important than prior generations. In that light, I hope you take the time to join one of the social media interest groups of The Good Men Project.
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