CHECK Magazin - Gesundheitsmagazin für Männer No.5
Beratungs- und Anlaufstellen für Drogennutzer*innen und Abhängige sehen sich einem besonderen Dilemma ausgesetzt. Die meisten Fachkräfte aus dem Bereich der Drogenprävention wissen, dass die Ansage: „Nehmt keine Drogen, weil sie illegal und ungesund sind“, die Menschen nicht vom Konsum abhält. Die Kunst ist hier, Konsum-Strategien zu vermitteln und bei Drogenmissbrauch individuelle Schadensbegrenzung vorzunehmen, etwa in Form von Safer Use.
Beratungs- und Anlaufstellen für Drogennutzer*innen und Abhängige sehen sich einem besonderen Dilemma ausgesetzt. Die meisten Fachkräfte aus dem Bereich der Drogenprävention wissen, dass die Ansage: „Nehmt keine Drogen, weil sie illegal und ungesund sind“, die Menschen nicht vom Konsum abhält. Die Kunst ist hier, Konsum-Strategien zu vermitteln und bei Drogenmissbrauch individuelle Schadensbegrenzung vorzunehmen, etwa in Form von Safer Use.
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ENGLISH<br />
COUNSELLING<br />
TRAUMA COUNSELLING<br />
for men*<br />
Interview: Torsten Schwick<br />
The HILFE-FÜR-JUNGS e.V.<br />
association has existed since<br />
1994. The sponsor now organises<br />
three different projects,<br />
with MUT - trauma counselling<br />
for men* as one of them.<br />
We spoke to Lukas Weber,<br />
managing director of<br />
HILFE-FÜR-JUNGS e.V.<br />
What exactly is trauma counselling? In which<br />
situations do men* come to you needing help?<br />
Ultimately, it is always about the topic of<br />
sexual violence, which is a very broad term. We<br />
welcome everyone who has experienced sexual<br />
violence in their childhood or adulthood. But<br />
that doesn‘t necessarily have to be an issue<br />
in our discussions. We are not therapists that<br />
help you to access the trauma: our aim is to<br />
help you stabilize it. This means that people<br />
decide for themselves the pace at which they<br />
want to work. In most cases it is about orientation,<br />
stress relief and self-awareness. Our<br />
clients often have to struggle with everyday<br />
problems that result from stressful experiences.<br />
For most of them, it is more about finding<br />
out why the partnership is not working, why<br />
they have so much stress at work and how all<br />
of this may have been triggered by the aspects<br />
of violence they have experienced.<br />
Sexual violence against boys or men is still<br />
a taboo subject. What exactly do you think is<br />
the problem here?<br />
As for the taboo, first and foremost the<br />
problem is our society. It has a lot to do with<br />
notions of masculinity. Men* often live with<br />
the impression that they are weak or not manly<br />
enough if they seek help.<br />
How is a man* affected by the sexual violence<br />
they have experienced?<br />
It can have massive effects on everyday life:<br />
you don‘t feel you belong to society, you don‘t<br />
feel male. You feel compelled to fulfill ideals<br />
of masculinity but you cannot. In principle, of<br />
course, it doesn‘t matter whether you meet<br />
these requirements. But for many people this<br />
is a big issue. This can be made worse if their<br />
social environment reacts very defensively<br />
and thinks that men* cannot experience<br />
sexualised violence. Many suffer from the<br />
fact that they actually have no one to talk to<br />
in their social environment because nobody<br />
takes it seriously or nobody wants to see it.<br />
Or because they just dismiss it and say that it<br />
only happens to women. Men* are afraid of being<br />
portrayed as victims. Some fear that they<br />
will be considered gay even though they may<br />
be straight. This should of course no longer<br />
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