The challenges that boys face can have a lifelong effect on their overall self esteem and quality of life.
Common factors: pressures from peers and parents or not fitting in, academic success or struggles, gender roles, sports performance, certain expectations from society/culture or family beliefs, and personal pressures.
Navigating puberty, relationships, sexual and gender identity, career/education goals, parent and child disagreements, mood and anxieties, social struggles, and expectations.
What happens to men when they've grown up with toxic masculinity, experienced abuse, death of a parent at a young age, divorce, bullied or feeling different from peers? The consequences can be severe:
Drugs and Alcohol
Addictive Love
Underperformance with career
High Achievers/Perfectionist
Depression/Anxiety
Gaming, and much more.