What Are The Symptoms Of Depression In Men?

Depression is a disease that is thought to affect around one in every twenty men. Trouble is, most men are highly unlikely to recognize the symptoms of male depression, and admitting we've got it - forget it!.

Men react to depression differently from women. Men are more likely to become angry or aggressive as a result of their depression. So immediately that makes it more difficult to spot.

Those signals mean that male depression can show itself as anger when driving, sudden loss of temper, that kind of thing. These can easily dismissed as just being "normal" whereas they are really more deeply rooted.

Most men find it difficult to talk about their feelings. Even men who you'd categorize as "modern" fall into this trap. Many men think it's a sign of failure if they have to talk about their feelings rather than just "deal" with them.

Which means that the advice you'd give a depressed woman to "simply talk about your feelings" isn't something that many men would take kindly to.

Bottling up your emotions may be the "manly" thing to do. Trouble is, in the long term, that's probably the worst thing you can do. Those feelings can literally eat away at you.

So what can you do to cure your male depression? If you can pluck up the courage to talk about your feelings - maybe with the excuse of a fishing trip or a trip to the bar - then that's good. If that's awkward, maybe pretending that a friend has this problem and you can't mention their name. Men are natural problem solvers, so there's a high chance you'll get some excellent advice if you can go down this route. A confidential doctor's appointment could get you some anti-depressant drugs, which can be a good short term solution.

A different way is to use a totally discrete option to help overcome your male depression. The internet really comes into its own here. You can download depression help at the click of a button and no-one (except your credit card company's computer) will know you've chosen this route. You can then read or listen to the anti-depression material at your own pace.

Get more ways to help reduce male depression here.