{"id":560341,"date":"2025-11-09T23:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/560341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:45:28","slug":"punishing-oneself-indian-man-slaps-himself-on-busy-road-video-sparks-mental-health-concerns-trending-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/560341\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Punishing oneself\u2019: Indian man slaps himself on busy road, video sparks mental health concerns | Trending News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health remains one of the widely discussed topics on social media, with celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Jemimah Rodrigues, Shah Rukh Khan, and others sharing their personal challenges on public platforms. As the Internet continues to gather insights on burnout and emotional stress, a video of a man, seemingly from Maharashtra, slapping himself in the middle of traffic has sparked concerns.<\/p>\n<p>In the now-<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/section\/trending\/\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viral<\/a> video shared by Instagram handle @memer_mitro, a man on a motorcycle can be seen removing his helmet amid halted traffic and aggressively thrashing himself. He puts the helmet back on, only to remove it again and continue slapping himself.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyloading\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"lazyloading-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/track_1x1.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/track_1x1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hardly anyone talks about men\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Roger (name changed) \u2014 both his sisters lost their husbands.\u2070One to COVID, another to brain fever. Both have kids.<br \/>They never worked, not good with in-laws, so they stay with Roger.\u2070He takes care of them and their\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mobktv0Vjf\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mobktv0Vjf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indian Christian (@iamJerusalem2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamJerusalem2\/status\/1986690971350815109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow, noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The video quickly resonated with several social media users, garnering over a million views. Several users shared their stance on lack of mental health awareness among men in India. \u201cMan need a good friend who listens and answer based on reality with comfort. Such true Friends are real and never leave a distressed friend,\u201d a user wrote. \u201cI was going through something like this, can\u2019t cry in front of kids at home, can\u2019t cry in the office, the only place I can cry was during office travel within a helmet, takes 1 hour to reach the office, that was only safe space I had. sharing it here makes me relive that pain,\u201d another user commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPunishing oneself to get out of emotional stress!\u201d a third user reacted.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2023 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, there was a 3.2 per cent rise in the number of suicides in India. The report also stated that suicide deaths among men were higher than among women and the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noamphtml noopener\" class=\"keywordtourl\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/section\/cities\/chennai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamil Nadu<\/a> saw the highest number of suicide deaths in 2023, constituting 21 per cent of all suicidal deaths due to illness in India, followed by Maharashtra, which was 12 per cent, and Karnataka at 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Expand<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mental health remains one of the widely discussed topics on social media, with celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Jemimah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,24262,178682,218,178680,19672,178679,178681,5776,16,15,416,31204],"class_list":{"0":"post-560341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-indianexpress","10":"tag-man-slapping-himself-video","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mental-health-among-men-in-india","13":"tag-mental-health-awareness","14":"tag-mental-health-awareness-india","15":"tag-mental-health-men","16":"tag-trending","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-viral","20":"tag-viral-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115522406796471582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}