Men Get Depressed? You're Kidding Right?Nope! All men can get depressed. Even your husband. Depression is an equal opportunity disabler and killer. It attacks husbands of all ages, sizes, education, and socio-economic levels. This illness can claim: · Soft-spoken ones who have lived a quiet normal life for many years. · Executives that have climbed the corporate ladder with great success. · Religious and social service professionals upon whom we all depend for a moral compass and a helping hand. · Teenagers · Senior citizens · Married or single · Wealthy or poor · White collar and blue collar · Athletes or geeks · Healthy or unwell · University Professors or high school dropouts All of them are targets for this cunning enemy.
Something about him has changed...Like an "invasion of the body snatchers" your loved one has changed internally and some days you hardly recognize him. You will find yourself thinking of him and saying things like:· Something is just not quite right. · Something is odd about my teenaged son; he has changed in some way and it can't be easily explained. · My husband has become a new person in the last few months and I do not like the result. · My Dad does not take part in the activities that used to be fun for him. He avoids people, as if he has something to hide. He is grumpy and negative and has the tendency to spoil a good time. All around your town, these changes are happening and it is time you were alarmed, very alarmed! Men are suffering, confused, helpless, and hopeless, yet they dare not tell anyone for fear that others will see just how worthless they really are. Coming to a Man Near You!"Depression? Not my husband! He is stable, reliable, and certainly not emotional. He doesn't have feelings, and I know that because he never talks about them."Statements like that may be partly humorous, but they reveal our most common misconception: that men are not generally subject to depression. Depression is not the product of your husband's feelings; rather it results in feelings that he cannot control. It is not the product of a pessimistic personality, but results in negative thinking and a sense of powerlessness. It might not be your husband who suffers from this but your son. It my also afflict your father or your spouse’s father. At some point in time, if you are not in the middle of it now, or have not already "been there, done that" you will be intimately connected to a man suffering from clinical depression. Once you know what it looks like and what to do about it you will become a superhero to that man. "Only women get depressed" is the common assumption, but it is wrong. They just hide it better and with more deadly consequences than women. Without a superhero like you in his life, your man has a 1 in 6.6 chance of being dead at his own hands.
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