Male Anxiety Can Be Different.

[Captain Caveman]

I found this and thought it may be of interest.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Wow! She nailed it!!

 

[Shamar]

I found this and thought it may be of interest.

Agree, I think (as a male who has experienced this), that she is on to something.

So why do the "experts" (from experience, I have become skeptical and cynical regarding their expertise) keep telling us that males and females are the same? We are different, and that difference is wonderful and makes us all stronger (but only if we recognize and embrace that difference).

 

[thejuice]

I had a psychiatrist tell me I "don't look like I have anxiety". The plonker implied: if you can't see it, it must not be real! I think there is some underlying gender bias there. He would have been treating a women majority, I suspect, and conditioned to identify anxiety symptoms in women.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

Agree, I think (as a male who has experienced this), that she is on to something.

So why do the "experts" (from experience, I have become skeptical and cynical regarding their expertise) keep telling us that males and females are the same?

Is anything she says truly inherent to men? Women can have psychosomatic pain and use substances to cope with anxiety. They can externalize. Often we mistake our experience for our nature, even though we don't know much about our nature. We know the artificial societies we were raised in, responding to how others see us, whether that's realistic or not.

 

[DrBadStrings]

Wow, this lady just described everything I've been going through for years. I've never thought of it as "anxiety" but according to this I have some severe issues that I should be seeing a therapist for. I've always thought of anxiety more as generalized worry and not generalized externalized anger. And the anger/temper has been something I've been aware of for years and worked to deal with unsuccessfully for years with a bottle of booze. Since going sober (1 year this Friday Oct 18th!) I've been better able to deal with all of the symptoms but they have never gone away, just became part of the general background.

 

[thejuice]

I didnt even know what generalised anxiety was until my 30s. In hindsight I was always running away from a feeling of unease and discontent. I barely engage with society, so in my case it cannot be purely socialisation, which is where the video goes amiss in my opinion.
I only heard of social anxiety and I always assumed I hadn't had enough practice at socialising before being told I was autistic.

 

[thejuice]

Wow, this lady just described everything I've been going through for years. I've never thought of it as "anxiety" but according to this I have some severe issues that I should be seeing a therapist for. I've always thought of anxiety more as generalized worry and not generalized externalized anger. And the anger/temper has been something I've been aware of for years and worked to deal with unsuccessfully for years with a bottle of booze. Since going sober (1 year this Friday Oct 18th!) I've been better able to deal with all of the symptoms but they have never gone away, just became part of the general background.

Yes if we take a moment to reflect after the dust settles on another self implosion, anxiety usually precedes the outburst. We're scared of something.

 

[Shamar]

When she says male anxiety is different, does she mean compared to female anxiety? So she's saying men and women are different? It's not breaking news, is it.

I'm a little sceptical to things like this, because there is a trend now, men needs to be fixed. We're broken apparently. We're different. And that's no bueno. But I think we're doing ok, no fixin' needed.

Agreed. Just because we are different, doesn't mean one gender needs to be changed into the other. Unfortunately, there seems to be people that think otherwise, and are pushing to change us into the other gender. Vive la Difference!!