i wonder if this is correlated with the loneliness increase / the loneliness gap. if you're a guy, lonely, prone to depression, in a crumbling post-capitalist society that's getting more malignant by the day....how much will to live can you have

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah, the older men I know either won't go to a doctor because they didn't need them when they were younger, are scared of them, can man up through whatever pain they have, whatever. These are folks with Medicare, so at least access to doctors. These are all married men with kids. They don't go until they're literally forced to and by then, it's already too late and they just die.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

I won’t go to a doctor because my experience with doctors is they tell me I’m imagining it, refuse to order any tests, then send me a bill for hundreds of dollars for the privilege of hearing them gaslight me about my symptoms.

I won’t open up emotionally to people for similar reasons: experience of it going wrong.

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd rather die than ever see the medical bill.

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