Talking Male Suicide and the Stigma Around Male Mental Health With UBC’s “HeadsUpGuys” Project Manager Joshua Beharry

Social Justice Voices Podcast by By Boyd Students

Episode notes

In this episode, Samantha Stolberg and Hilda Zhang talk with Joshua Beharry, the project manager of HeadsUpGuys, a UBC program and anonymous online resource that works to improve mental health literacy among men, reduce the stigma, and help prevent male suicide. Joshua enlightens us on why the stigma persists, how men often struggle with toxic masculinity, how discussing male suicide helps, not hurts, and so much more.