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• Archive: Topic Areas:Depression | WorkshopCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2013Faculty:Terry Real, LICSWDuration:1:25:11Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Apr 19, 2013 Description Description: Why has depression been seen as a “woman’s disease”?
• Depression is not unwom-anly, but many feel it as unmanly—setting up what Real calls, “compound depression.” Men, he says, feel ashamed of feeling ashamed, depressed about being depressed,” causing them to hide it, and causing those around them—even medical profession-als-to shy away from confronting the condition.
• Even more important, however, is the fact that many men express depression differently than women.
• Real will speak of “covert depression” which lies at the core of many of men’s typical “bad behaviors.” like drinking, workaholism, withdrawal, and anger.
• What sets up the unique traits of depression in men is the particular wounds we as a society inflict on our boys.