Men who suffer from depression are often not receiving
appropriate help. The lack of treatment in males is very often due to the fact
that, what may be common viewed as a depressed condition in women may not be classified
as such in a male. With the passing of Robin Williams, from suicide, men who
suffer from depression are getting more attention.
Stereotypes result in non-treatment
When we think of depression we usually think of women, and
in truth, statistics do show that women suffer from depressed moods much more
often than males do. The reason that more males are not diagnosed with as
having a clinically depressed mood is because of the fact that it is still taboo
to label a man as depressed, typically depressed men are categorized under
other psychologically associated conditions. Males who are depressed are often
sent to anger management therapy if it was discovered that the male patient
confessed to any feelings of inner aggression. Aggressive women are rarely sent to anger
management. It is largely recognized in psychiatric circles that males get
anger management and women receive treatment for the depressed mood. When men suffer from depression we very often
miss the signs because, we as a society are still not comfortable diagnosing
males with clinical depression.
Beyond medications
Antidepressants can be a great help to those who are experiencing
a depressed mental condition, but it is often the last step in the treatment
for the depressed. Medication are a necessity for millions of people, it is antidepressants
that more that 20 million people in the United States take in order to live a
normal life, but, we cannot stop at medications. It is crucial to address depression from a
dual perspective; it takes 2 therapies to truly stop the illness!
Adding your own self healing therapy
It is crucial to have a second (self healing) therapy which
can be utilized with or without medications; this is an added insurance against
a depressed mood.
Relying solely on medications is not the best way to go. Using
psychiatric drugs can be good, but, drugs do not address the root causes of the
male or female depression.
There is some good news, there is a self heal therapy that
is used in over 10 countries, there are no doctors, therapist or medications. The
depressed person heals alone with self healing in private. It is an inside out
treatment used alone by thousands to heal a depressed mood in private.