A summary of the masculine epistemology of mental health in a poem by Rudyard Kipling.

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

It's strange to think their are other mental health ideologies. There are many. Most are only subtly different but the so-called traditional male epistemology of mental health is fundamentally different as, I hope, this poem illustrates.

This ideology of mental health is a shadow of its former self. Where once it dominated Industrial Revolution nations' social landscape today I can only recall the concept of resilience which bears a sense of survival and toughness, poor self- esteem/ humility, internalisation of suffering and other themes so well described by Kipling.

To be continued.

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