Online Discussions of Men’s Mental Health on Reddit and YouTube: Cross-Sectional Mixed-Methods Infodemiological Study
Anurag Shekhar, Musawenkosi Donia Saurombe · 2026
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Men seek mental health care less often than women yet die by suicide more often, and many talk instead in anonymous online spaces. Anurag Shekhar and Musawenkosi Saurombe study those conversations on Reddit and YouTube. They analyze 740 Reddit posts and over six thousand YouTube comments, then triangulate with surveys and interviews of adult men.
Text mining and emotion lexicons map the words and feelings that dominate the threads. The study asks whether these spaces allow emotional openness and peer support that push against norms tying manhood to silence. Survey and interview data check how online patterns match lived experience and barriers to care. The authors frame the platforms as informal support settings worth understanding.
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| CREATOR | Anurag Shekhar, Musawenkosi Donia Saurombe |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 78 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |