{"id":493,"date":"2017-04-24T08:25:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:25:52","slug":"spotting-depression-signs-in-men-different-perspective-on-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/spotting-depression-signs-in-men-different-perspective-on-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting Depression Signs in Men &#8212; Different Perspective on Symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-secret=\"jPS2Zw9mXN\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehealthsciencejournal.com\/forget-crash-course-mens-depression\/\">Before You Forget: A Crash Course About Men&#8217;s Depression<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehealthsciencejournal.com\/forget-crash-course-mens-depression\/embed\/#?secret=jPS2Zw9mXN\" data-secret=\"jPS2Zw9mXN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Before You Forget: A Crash Course About Men&#8217;s Depression&#8221; &#8212; The Health Science Journal\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the difficult things about depression is how it manifests from person to person with a lot of variation, even more so how it does so between genders.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guilty of not being able to see my own depression as it became worse over several years. Personally I tried to deflect and often attributed it to stress, fatigue and sleep issues. The above article was a good review and reminder that there&#8217;s a spectrum to depression which isn&#8217;t always easy to identify.<\/p>\n<p>From my own experiences it&#8217;s also extremely difficult to get someone suffering from depression to spot their own signs. I was very dismissive of it and it cost me greatly. The approach for everyone may be very different from person to person but a lot of times frustrated spouses and friends may come at the issue a bit hard and critical. For me at least that approach made me recoil inward even more and in some ways built my own frustration. If you have a loved one whom you suspect is suffering from a form of depression, let them know you&#8217;re worried, let them know you&#8217;re concerned and offer to just listen to what&#8217;s bothering them. A lot of times it&#8217;s just being heard that it&#8217;s the first step. Recommend therapy or other activities to help as coping tools, but try to do so constructively and not as a criticism or implication that they are somehow broken.\u00a0Depression in it&#8217;s many variations is difficult to manage and even harder at times to spot but a good support does wonders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before You Forget: A Crash Course About Men&#8217;s Depression One of the difficult things about depression is how it manifests from person to person with a lot of variation, even more so how it does so between genders. I&#8217;m guilty of not being able to see my own depression as it became worse over several &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/spotting-depression-signs-in-men-different-perspective-on-symptoms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spotting Depression Signs in Men &#8212; Different Perspective on Symptoms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-7X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}