3 Hidden Mental Struggles Men Face

3 Mental health issues that men generally struggle with more than women. The first one that I want to talk about is dysthymia. This is a persistent mild form of depression. I kind of call it functional depression. It's like a guy is always a little sad, but he still does life. He's still social, he's still out doing things. You still function. The next one, alexithymia, the inability to describe and acknowledge your own emotions. So there's kind of an awareness sometimes of like, yeah, I think I feel happy, or, yeah, I think I feel sad. But there's no ability to describe what that's like from a physiological standpoint. The last piece is derealization, a feeling that your surroundings or your experience aren't real. And that can be brutal. So talk to somebody, tell them what's going on inside of you. Share what you're experiencing and let yourself start to feel and connect to what's underneath the surface.