Why Men Often Describe Mental Health Issues Indirectly: The Articulation Gap

There is a difference between feeling pain and being able to describe it. A child who falls and scrapes his knee points immediately to the wound. An adult suffering from anxiety may spend years saying he is merely “busy”. A man battling depression may insist he is only “tired”. Another may describe loneliness as work pressure, irritability, or exhaustion. The suffering is real yet the language is missing. This phenomenon, increasingly recognized by mental health...