When Bruce Springsteen, someone so macho that his nickname is the Boss, talks about depression it’s another leap forward. “I felt it was a conversation that hasn’t happened much because black men aren’t open about their struggles with mental health,” he says. “It’s taken a long time to get the issue of male suicide talked about properly because we have some very fixed opinions of men. There’s an unspoken discomfort around male suicide, a sense that he clearly wasn’t up to it.”Former rugby league player Paul Highton agrees. “Black men are stuck between the rock of toxic masculinity and the hard place of systematic racial bias that often prevents them from getting effective help even if they tried.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2016 19:30 UTC