The Pain Behind the Mask
- Editore:
Routledge
- EAN:
9780789005588
- ISBN:
0789005581
- Pagine:
- 226
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Pain Behind the Mask
"Be a man!""Real men don't cry!""Don't be a wimp!"How many times, either now or during your youth, have you heard these "hard knocks" flung in your face?Masculine depression is a vicious syndrome that feeds upon your fear of these expectations. You are supposed to be -- by "masculine" standards -- totally strong -- unfeeling -- a winner -- desirable.But from these expectations emerges a special type of depression just now being recognized: "Masculine Depression." This is an overwhelming syndrome in men that is almost always misunderstood and misdiagnosed. When you were encouraged, during your early years, to develop a great "masculine" personality, you were unintentionally and secretly also being taught to Suppress a great many feelings, attitudes, and desires because they would not be seen as "masculine" enough. Much of what you really wanted to achieve in life was thus distorted, and a vague feeling of an "unfulfilling existence" permeated your every waking hour. This kind of depression can be devastating to men, and to women in their relationships with men!
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