Michael Blumenstein freaked out and screamed in vain occasions to his wife and children. "Always there was this inner irritability. For this I had stomach problems, it was all right organically," says the 44-year-old in hospital Wahrendorff near Hanover. The job loss, he had apparently gotten over, cared for the now six and four year old sons. In the boys then a genetic defect was found, the elderly also became ill with leukemia. "Outwardly I was joyful Li-La-Launebär. You build a facade, but at some point no longer holds the mask."
About its collapse and the history Blumenstein now talks daily with nine fellow sufferers in the day clinic set up in January for depressed men in the district of Lower Saxony Ilten Sehnde - a unique nationwide project.
The 20 - to 50-year-olds are treated here for a special psychotherapeutic approach. Much space is devoted to the stress tolerance training. "What do I do if I have a high tension in me, without auszuticken without drinking alcohol or using the highway to race?" Said Chief Medical Officer Michael Hettich. During the breaks, the patients get the soccer goals in the shady park out front of the building and kick a bit.
Escape into work, sports or alcohol
Only in recent years, researchers concerned with the question of why women suffer two to three times more frequently from depression, but men commit suicide at least three times as often. "Men try to suppress a long depression, then it quickly becomes life-threatening," the depression researcher Mathias Berger says the Freiburg University Clinic. In one study, family physicians detected depression in men is only 20 percent of cases among women in 40 percent.
The German Society for man and health (DGMG) now developed training programs for family physicians to be aware of vulnerable men. "Unfortunately, had only by the tragic death of goalkeeper Robert Enke, the German men's world to be shaken," said DGMG president and professor of men's health at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Frank Sommer.
Moody men flee in work, sports or alcohol. Their behavior, they often move on occupational stress. "I have only worked for the company," says Andrew, who would not give his last name.
Men prefer to talk of burnout
After an unfinished study of the now 50-year-old had gone into a carrier. "My days all looked the same: I got up at four in the morning and have clock after twelve hours of work in the evening drinking lots of beer and fell into bed."
In the spring of Andrew raced with the car on a straight road into a tree and lay in a coma for nine days. "The colleagues I would speak of burnout, not depression," he says.
Although mental illnesses now occupy the top spot in the sad days of sick leave, they conceal Affected out of shame. This is especially true for male patients. "Men define themselves as independent, confident, achievement-oriented, active and rational. That does not fit with depression," said Hettich.
Blumenstein, Michael made the experience that his depression was not taken seriously. The father said he should pull himself together. The bowling buddy asked, "Are you man or a wimp?"
Despite all the prejudices he has decided to deal openly with his illness. "My big dream is to find a job as a retail salesman," says Hausmann. "In the toddler groups I felt the only man among women is like an alien."
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