Experts are concerned with what this mental health trend could mean for young men when they grow up.
Experts explain that boys aren’t always as expressive with their struggles. They say it is not a stereotype, but part of the way many boys and young men process things like anxiety, grief and loneliness.“Typically what happens with young boys is a lot of their emotions are internalized and their symptoms are completely opposite, where they're not expressing their emotions outwardly in a behavior manner,” Family therapist Jay Barnett said. “They tend to express aggressively.
“You're breeding a generation of young males who won't have the ability to self-regulate their emotions. You're breeding a generation of young males that would be overly aggressive. They would be overly dismissive,” Barnett said. “You have a lot of young males who will become men who will look at everything around them as a nail because the only tool that they have in their toolkit is a hammer.
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