Is it hard for men to say? ! Most men don't feel depressed.
Besides expressing your concern for men through festivals, do you pay more attention to their emotional state on weekdays? Have you ever heard a male friend complain? Why do men ask for less help? According to the Ministry of Health 15 cause of death statistics, it is found that the ratio of male suicide (68%) is higher than that of female suicide (32%). According to the statistics of national health insurance published by the Ministry of Health 104, it is found that the rate of male visits to psychiatric clinics is less than 10%. If analyzed by age, the ratio of men over 20 years old is lower than that of women.
A man's melancholy is that he doesn't face up to everything that pays attention to face.
Yaxin Ye, director of the Mental Health Center of the Dong Shi Foundation, said that most male patients with depression tend to narrow down or ignore the problem until the symptoms are very obvious. Influenced by the traditional oriental culture, men are regarded as strong and unyielding, and they often regard asking for help as weakness or the last resort. Moreover, the dialogue between men is mostly about their own achievements, and there is less chance to express negative emotions such as depression or unhappiness. In addition, they are not sensitive to physical and mental discomfort and often ignore their physical and mental health. Therefore, we should establish a new view of men: face up to the problem and be willing to actively seek solutions.
Liu Jiayi, the attending physician of general psychiatry in Taipei Chang Gung Hospital, pointed out that men are more inclined to make their own decisions than women, believing that they have more control over their physical and mental conditions, and men pay more attention to face, so their willingness to seek medical treatment is lower than that of women. If men delay their illness and do not seek help in time, they may lose their motivation to work, their attention will drop, their interpersonal relationship will deteriorate, and they will easily have disputes with their families, leading to physical and mental imbalance and physical weakness.
Men with high socioeconomic status need more care after retirement.
Yaxin Ye explained that after retirement, older men, especially those with higher social and economic status, need to spend more time facing the sense of loss and adapting to the changes of life if they don't have a good life plan, and even feel depressed because they can't stand the loneliness of quitting the group. When the male elders in the family become more silent than before (no longer complaining or missing), unwilling to go out because of physical discomfort (they used to go to the park to play chess and make tea, but now they stay at home all day), refuse to visit relatives and friends, want to do nothing, lose their vitality, complain that they are worthless (feel that living is boring), and so on, family members should be more concerned and considerate, avoid alienating or ignoring the younger generation, and make him more self-denying or self-strengthening.
In addition to taking the initiative to care about diet and daily life, family members can also give male elders with melancholy feelings a sense of expectation and tell them what activities, such as visiting relatives and friends, dinners, wedding banquets and so on. It may be held in the next week or two, so actively invite them to participate, and fix the date of the activity first, so that it is more convenient for them to interact with others outdoors.
The less men ask for help, the more serious their depression is.
A study published in the Journal of Health Psychology in September, 20 15 pointed out that male patients with depression tend to take care of themselves when seeking professional treatment, and participate in mental health promotion activities less than women! In this study, 65,438+025 adult Australian men were asked to fill in the early and late questionnaire data during 65,438+05 weeks, and the relationship between the cycle of depressive symptoms and their attitude towards help-seeking was discussed. The questionnaire includes whether they have been depressed in the past two weeks, whether they have received treatment and the types of treatment, and the Help-seeking Disorder Scale (BHSS), whose topics include the need for control and self-reliance, problem reduction and acceptance.
The average BHSS score of patients with long-term depression is higher than that of those without depression. The scores of "reducing problems" and "strengthening obstacles" in long-term depression are higher than those in late transient depression; The scores of "need control and self-reliance" and "problem solving" of pre-temporary depression are higher than those of non-depression. The researchers concluded that the severity of symptoms is the key for men to seek help, and the underestimation of the severity of symptoms by people with long-term depression affects their willingness to seek help. "The need for control and self-reliance" and strong ideas are also obstacles to seeking help.
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