Male depression

Normally and usually, male depression is associated with male menopause, which has a very strong connection with the impotence and other sexuality problems. A percentage of 40 % of men in their 40s, 50s and 60s are more likely to experience some severe difficulties regarding their erection, mood instability, increased irritability, depression, lethargy and other stuff that characterizes the male menopause. It is very common that male depression symptoms are not recognizable, mostly due to some several symptoms, which can be denied by men. The first reason for telling this, is that the male depression is kind of different than the classic depression we all know. The other reasons for having this statement are that usually men deny the fact about having any kind of problems, either they are sexual or health ones. They are refusing to recognize the illness they have just because it has been known for ever than men are supposed to be strong and healthy.

Male depression is a disease that can have very severe devastating consequences on man's life and his family's. It can lead to suicide, men who suffer of depression have a suicide risk with seventy eight times greater than other men have. Statistics say that in the US more that 80 % of all suicides are committed by men and that 20 million Americans will experience depression symptoms sometimes in their lives. The treatment for male depression consists of many paths that can be followed in order for a men to get better or to ameliorate his depression symptoms. Some of these paths should include: exercise, medication, diet, individual and group psychotherapy, getting in touch with their spirituality, teaching men how to love and accept themselves and teaching them how to create or recreate their social support, which they lost or maybe never had. There are people who don't care about helping patients with male depression, they just simply refuse to react in a positive way towards these men, while others get involved for these men's retrieval.