We are often conditioned to look for the sad person when we think of depression. The above picture is what I saw, a happy-go-lucky kid with a revolving door of friends. When we finally got a depression diagnosis for Charles after a psychological evaluation I was shocked. I had thought about it but he did not seem to fit the criteria I had been reading. People rarely do.
Charles would live with untreated depression, become addicted to heroin and die by suicide.
Men who live with depression are often irritable and angry during a depressive … Read more...