I try to be like Mr. Rogers. How would he feel looking at the world right now?

I’m Joe Truax, a Top 100 Innovator of 2024, Social Impact Leader, non-medical men's mental health expert, and men's suicide prevention specialist; I'm a man helping men stay alive, as well as helping them become non-toxic. I love what I do, and the people love my work too. I'm the founder of that community, r/GuyCry—a peer-led men’s mental health community now over 190,000 members strong.

r/GuyCry became the #2 community in the world in Reddit’s Wholesome & Heartwarming category, proving that men’s mental health belongs at the very top (do you see in the second image, our 190k community sitting there between a community with 11.5 million and one with 4.5 million? A beautiful thing). My work has been featured in Newsweek and 3 separate Authority Magazine series, Social Impact Heroes being the most recent, and it has already kept men alive who once thought they had no reason to go on.

The Four Tools for Survival

This campaign is not just one resource—it’s a system. Four coordinated tools to help men survive, heal, and grow:

1. GuyCry – the largest peer-led men’s safe space, over 190,000 members worldwide.
2. Free Therapy e-Guide – lowering the barrier to therapy, showing men how to actually use it.
3. Legacies of Men – a structured, in-person 24-outline program that builds lasting strength and empathy.
4. The ManBack Mirrors – Socratic reflection tools designed to pull men out of manosphere toxicity.

This is Part 2: the Therapy e-Guide. Short, free, and built for impact.

Women

You’ve always been the counselors, caretakers, and quiet therapists for the men in your lives. This work is for you too.

By sharing it, you help resolve:

• The mental health crisis
• The loneliness pandemic
• Rising suicide attempts
• The suicide rate itself

You are not just bystanders. You are catalysts. When you place this tool in front of men, you become part of the frontline against despair.

Professional Recognition

“I’m a psychotherapist and I found this guide incredibly good, succinct and accurate on how to approach psychotherapy. Very well prepared… it is an excellent guide on how to deal with therapy as a health treatment.”

— SiegerHost, Licensed Psychotherapist

Men

Maybe you believe you don’t need therapy. Maybe you’re not ready. Maybe you’ve tried and quit. That’s okay.

This campaign exists so that every man on Earth has at least one free, non-medical resource to consider. Think of it as a tool—one of four in your mental health toolbox.

Closing

This is survival in motion.

Take it. Share it. Use it.

If you’ve ever said you care about men’s lives—this is where you prove it.

Support This Campaign

The resource is free. The mission isn’t. Keeping it alive takes support.

If you’d like to help sustain and grow it, you can donate here:

• Square (Apple Pay, Google Pay): square.link/u/vIARafbW
• Cash App: cash.app/$Dr.JoeTruaxBD
• Chime: $Dr.JoeTruaxBD
• Venmo: venmo.com/u/Dr.JoeTruaxBD

I'm going to be on this wall one day too:

May everyone try to be as good as these wonderful human beings. Be good to each other.