ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to outlines three main issues in men's mental health. These are: conceptions of mental health marginalise the difficulties that men have with emotional and mental well-being, referral and diagnostic procedures exclude many of men's mental health difficulties, and mental health services fail to reach many of the groups where there may be men with mental health difficulties. Mental health services focus on ill-health and one way to consider if men are on the edge is to explore whether services reach men with such difficulties. In the academic and clinical domains, diagnosis can mean a specific procedure which identifies a discrete mental illness. Depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are some of the more traditional mental ill-health diagnoses because they attempt to define an internal problem of the individual, particularly, but not exclusively, with how they feel.
