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I wish for once health professionals would address the real depression that affects millions of men, namely the depression of losing their children. This despair, coupled with thwarted access, financial ruin, and a reaction to hostile courts, has led many men to alcoholism, job loss, and suicide.
For the most part, only depression of the clinical kind is addressed, the kind that may be treated with therapy or drugs. If depression with cause were examined, they would probably find that men are twice as likely to be depressed as women. But then again, this would require a social solution instead of a medical one. That's a lot harder.
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I am pleased that Yahoo! provides info of this sort on men's health. But I was disappointed to see that the main article on depression predictably mentioned female depression but never said a word about male suicide. This is especially disturbing given the fact that males commit suicide at four times the rate of females. Adolescent males and elderly males are particularly at risk. And divorced men are more at risk than divorced women. None of this was discussed or even mentioned in the article.
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by Anonymous User on 10:25 PM March 25th, 2004 EST (#4)
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Break the silence! Even if you don't like to talk about your problems, talking about them is doing something. And do something more, too.
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My mother died, my wife left, and my 18 year old cat died all in a short period of time.
My mother went out slow hard and obscene gasping for breath in a room that stank of gangrene while the palliative care nurse worked as diligently as an alchemist to find that just right dose of morphine that would not initiate a coroner's inquest but would do the job...I sat there through all of it...I did not loose it.
My wife desided to go off the hormone therapy she had to take since her twenties because of cervical cancer. She dropped it cold turkey, went middle age crazy, ran off with a jockey and bought a washed up horse named "Laundromat" (No I am NOT making that up)...I did not loose it.
But when my beloved pet died I howled like a Klingon...and it occured to me that Gene Roddenbury must have suffered some unspeakable grief in order for him to have included that in the culture of his creation...thank you Sasha..that was what it took for the healing to begin.
Don't just speak out...cry out.
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