PEARL-Decoding Young Minds

Always remember Healing is not about erasing the past, its about learning living beyond.

depression in men often wears a "mask" that looks very different from the classic clinical definition of sadness. Because of traditional social conditioning—the "Silent and Strong" archetype—men frequently externalize their internal pain.
​If a woman’s depression is often described as a "sinkhole" (imploding inward), a man’s depression is often an "outburst" (exploding outward) like shouting, road rage , escalating arguments into rage or a "numbing" (shutting down) as if finding no joy in activities the one used to like, lack of physical activities and excessive or lack of sleep and most of the time seeking help of alcohol or other substances to numb the pain