Some infinite series involving hyperbolic functions

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I have been working on a problem in Quantum Field Theory that involves some sums that I haven't been able to get a closed form. They all involve hyperbolic functions:

\begin{gather} \sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{m^3} \coth \left(\frac{m\pi}{2x}\right)\,,\nonumber\\ \sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{m^2} \operatorname{csch} ^{2}\left(\frac{m\pi}{2x}\right)\,,\\ \sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{m} \coth \left(\frac{m\pi}{2x}\right) \operatorname{csch}^{2}\left(\frac{m\pi}{2x}\right)\nonumber\,. \end{gather}

I have wondered if anyone knows how to evaluate them and could help me out.

Any references that may address the computation of them are very welcome, too.

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Not An Answer. Such series probably have no explicit closed-forms for arbitrary $x$. But for $x=1/2$, we have \begin{aligned} &\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\coth(\pi n)}{n^3} =\frac{7\pi^3}{180},\\ &\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2\sinh(\pi n)^2} =\frac23G-\frac{11\pi^2}{180},\\ &\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\coth(\pi n)}{n\sinh(\pi n)^2}=\frac\pi{30}-\frac{G}{3\pi}. \end{aligned} where $G=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^n}{(2n+1)^2}$ denotes Catalan's constant.
Proof. The first sum is $$ \sum_{m,n\ge1} \frac{1}{n^2(m^2+n^2)}=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{n\pi\coth(\pi n)-1}{2n^4} =\frac{1}{2} \sum_{m,n\ge1}\frac{m^2+n^2}{m^2n^2(m^2+n^2)} =\frac{\pi^4}{72}. $$ For the last two sums, explicitly compute $\sum_{m\in\mathbb{Z},n\ge1}\frac{1}{(m^2+n^2)^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{3}G-\frac{\pi^4}{90} , \sum_{m\in\mathbb{Z},n\ge1}\frac{n^2}{(m^2+n^2)^3} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}G ,$ and it gives the claimed results.