MEN ARE REALLY SAD

Simply Said: "If Ken and Barbie are so popular....why do you have to buy them
                          friends!?      "Depression is rage turned inward" Sigmund Freud.

FINALLY, we are getting smarter in one area long overlooked!! I have always felt sorry for the modern man coping with the complexities of a modern woman's mind! I will be explaining this month about gender differences and you will then know why a man "has that look" when dealing with us. (Next post)

FIRST of all....what it is NOT! DEPRESSION is NOT: an air mass, an imprint shaped

as a concave, an Economic Crisis, a Depression in the road or a Tropical Depression.

I am referring to the long over-due medical proof of "ANDROPAUSE." As in other 

differences men and women have(next post) men react differently to prolonged stress than women.

Women were thought to experience over a lifetime a 70% chance of depression and men

only 30%. We were NOT factoring HOW men were handling STRESS different than most women would. When factoring in Rage, Risk-taking, substance abuse and workaholism the chances are equalized between men and women!(Maybe more)

Men are more than four times likely to commit suicide so the psychiatric

community took off their "blinders" and discovered male specific symptoms

PLUS the original checklist of sadness, too little or too much sleep, hopelessness, and fatigue. Then, the statistics went from 70-30% difference

to 30.6% of men and 33.3 % of women experiencing depression. Because of this oversight men thought emotional suffering was just a woman's disease.When they

tested women with the added male symptoms it was even lower gap.

A man's rage is usually directed OUTWARD rather than INWARD like a woman.

It can be directed at the spouse, co-workers, strangers...they "bluster" and "bully", they take risks that are not necessary and can "DULL" the pain with

sex, drugs and endless work days.

Symptoms up to now have been "internal" responses and must now include "external" behavior.....if you know your man's baseline behavior or what has been normal for them you will be able to discern obvious changes...too many have suffered in silence because it wasn't MACHO to admit it....thus, strokes,ulcers,heart attacks.....

Next post is The Battle of the Sexes or How to Fight Fair. Mrs.B.