Crisis Care · United States
Males who discuss suicide seek help less often than females, report finds
Crisis Text Line data show male texters less likely to seek formal help and more likely to frame help-seeking as weakness.
STAT covers a Crisis Text Line report analyzing 1.5 million messages: male texters who discuss suicide are markedly less likely than females to seek formal help, and more likely to describe help-seeking as a sign of weakness.
The data is one of the largest text-based corpora on suicide help-seeking and points to specific framing changes that may improve male engagement with crisis services.
Read the full STAT report for the methodology and recommended interventions.
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