If You Or Someone You Love Is Hiding Depression — Almost Perfectly

This article quotes from Winnicott’s work on the ego: “The False Self is represented by the whole organization of the polite and mannered social attitude…“. He wrote that the false self was created as a defense against a not “good enough” mother.  Helene Deutsch wrote about a similar syndrome, the “as if” personality. Dr. Terrance Real wrote about covert depression in men in 1998, in his well-accepted book, “I Don’t Want To Talk About It.” He states, “Women rate high in internalizing, men in externalizing. Internalizing has been found to have high correlation with overt depression. When researchers compared the high rates of externalization in men with their low rates of depression, they speculated that men’s capacity to externalize might somehow protect them from the disease. But while the capacity to externalize pain protects some men from feeling depressed, it does not stop them from being depressed; it just helps them to disconnect further from their own experience. The capacity to externalize helps men escape over depression, only to drive them toward covert depression.” We need to express, in terms that today’s audience can embrace, the entire range of ways depression can be experienced, by men and women alike. Yet, all the commercials you watch on depression show someone sitting on the floor, not wanting to walk the dog, depicting what Dr. Real would term “internalizers.&#...
Source: Psych Central - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Depression Relationships & Love Dating deception Depressive Episode hidden depression Major Depressive Disorder Marriage Mood Disorder secrete Suicide Source Type: news