It is a battle for a wife or girlfriend to get a husband or boyfriend to go to the doctor for medical reasons much less depression, anxiety, or grief. This is compounded when most men in Winn Parish work in the forest industry or at the prision. In a study looking specifically at referral rates for those who sought help, 47 per cent of participants reported that mothers encouraged them to seek mental health services, while only 5 per cent of the participants reported their fathers encouraged seeking help.