{"id":5403,"date":"2016-08-29T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/29\/this-hashtag-is-prompting-men-to-get-real-about-mental-health-and-suicide\/"},"modified":"2016-08-29T05:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T21:56:45","slug":"this-hashtag-is-prompting-men-to-get-real-about-mental-health-and-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/29\/this-hashtag-is-prompting-men-to-get-real-about-mental-health-and-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"This hashtag is prompting men to get real about mental health and suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f192604%2fitsokaytotalk\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/4LgSEV_pogUunaiC29yuUm6gC7M=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F192604%2Fitsokaytotalk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=This+hashtag+is+prompting+men+to+get+real+about+mental+health+and+suicide&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fitsokaytotalk-men-suicide-mental-health%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fitsokaytotalk-men-suicide-mental-health%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Listen up, men. It&#8217;s time to push that <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@failnaut\/men-are-dying-because-they-can-t-talk-ba3973208334#.yrozhhpk3\">toxic masculinity<\/a> aside. We need to chat about mental health and suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re apprehensive about speaking up, don&#8217;t worry. There&#8217;s a hashtag for that.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/08\/30\/man-therapy-mental-health\/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-Samsung-All-Partial\">Man Therapy says it&#8217;s manly to take care of your mental health<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Throughout the month of August, you may have seen men from around the globe posting selfies on social media making an &#8220;OK&#8221; symbol with their hands. But this signal is more than a simple selfie pose. It&#8217;s part of a global campaign meant to let men know it&#8217;s OK to talk about mental health \u2014 and especially suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Appropriately, the photos have been shared across <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=itsokaytotalk&amp;src=typd\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/itsokaytotalk\/\">Instagram<\/a> with the hashtag #ItsOkayToTalk. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/28\/itsokaytotalk-men-suicide-mental-health\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hashtag\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hashtag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mental-illness\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mental Illness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mental-health\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mental Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/suicide\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Suicide<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/social-good\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Social Good<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/Kc26TdZvio0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen up, men. It&#8217;s time to push that toxic masculinity aside. We need to chat about mental health and suicide.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re apprehensive about speaking up, don&#8217;t worry. There&#8217;s a hashtag for that. SEE ALSO: Man Therapy says it&#8217;s manly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/29\/this-hashtag-is-prompting-men-to-get-real-about-mental-health-and-suicide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1039,2084,4055,892,3557],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-hashtag","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-social-good","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}