In Britain, 78 percent of suicides are committed by men. Although most of these suicides are the cause of depression, men are less likely to receive early diagnosis of depression than women, either because of pressure from economic and social factors or because of a lack of fully open communication.
What about this?
A man named Tom Chapman decided to become a suicide prevention charity during a discussion with his barber colleagues on Facebook. Before that, a good friend of Tom Chapman committed suicide and died. At the funeral of his good friend, Chapman began to think about doing something to change the status quo.
Therefore, before World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), he and his friends founded an organization called “Lion Barbers Group” to train barbers to identify symptoms of depression, discuss and listen.
[People often compare barbers with consultants. I also often have customers who tell me about cancer, loss of loved ones-and all kinds of other things during haircuts, so sometimes we actually act as “consultants” to listen, which is also something we hope to do more for people.]
Said the hairdresser
After all, barbers are not professionals. How can they understand psychology? Isn’t this nonsense?
Therefore, Chapman has also set up a training program called BarberTalk. Psychologists are invited to give lectures to barbers to guide them on how to use active and non-judgmental listening, how to find clues to depression, how to discuss interaction, and how to avoid [pits] in questions, such as [Are you depressed? Or [Do you want to kill yourself? ]
Since then, barbers can consult for free or for a fee while cutting their hair. Customers are not nervous, and the experience is much better than buzzing in their ears to persuade you to apply for a membership card or do dyeing and ironing…
There is also a natural advantage for barbers to do consultation, that is, customers will come back regularly to have their hair cut, which may be more punctual than [discomfort follow-up]. Every few weeks, barbers can see the changes of customers, whether in hair or mentality, and [suit the remedy to the case].
A barbershop is a good place for people who come to cut their hair to speak freely or relax completely out of trust in the barber. Compared with hospitals (especially psychiatric hospitals), barbershops are more likely to break people’s stereotype that mental illness is a shame.
In the eyes of customers, the barbershop is not discussing diseases, everyone is just chatting. Unconsciously, it was done.
For example, Cui Yongyuan, a [anti-GM fighter] who suffered from depression, once mentioned in his autobiography < < but so much > > that [if someone had a haircut when I lost sleep, I would soon fall asleep.]
This has something to do with doctors in what?
Looking back, if you have come into contact with similar patients in your work-chief complaints of long-term headache, or chest tightness, dyspepsia, insomnia and other minor symptoms, you can’t find any problems.
Looking back, it seems that when I was an undergraduate, I learned a course called [Psychiatry], but it was [useless]. Anyway, I can ask for psychiatric consultation. How to diagnose and deal with psychological diseases or physical symptoms of mental illness seems not to be my job.
However, for patients, because of headache or indigestion, they eventually become [mental problems], which brings a lot of blow and pressure. After all, at present, in our country, mental illness may bear almost second only to venereal diseases…
So what? Some physicians will directly prescribe trifluthixol/melitracen mixture when they suspect that the patient has depression. Although this drug has been banned in many countries and regions such as the United States and Britain, the effect is often immediate, but the hat of [abuse] cannot be removed.
Therefore, should clinicians consider learning some communication skills in psychology like barbers? After all, what we want to treat is people, not just diseases.
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Source: Meet the barbers fighting male depression, netdoctor.co.uk
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