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"  Good news for eroding the whole patriarchal construct of depression as a &amp;quot;women&amp;#039;s issue,&amp;quot; but bad news for, well, dudes: A new study published by the journal JAMA Psychiatry shows that men are nearly as likely as women to suffer from depression \u2014 they just express it differently. Their findings solve one of the biggest plot holes in mental health research: Namely, that men are much less likely than women to suffer from depression, but four times likelier to commit suicide.  The Los Angeles Times reports that depression tends to look differently in men than it does in women; when taking into account the way men tend to manifest those symptoms, the rates between genders are nearly equal. Conducted studies sampling participants for symptoms usually associated with depression (like sadness and loss of interest in pleasurable activities) reinforces the same old stats that women are 70% likelier than men to suffer from depression. But when the symptoms are opened up to include things like anger attacks, aggression, and substance abuse, the gap between men and women narrows to 30.6% of men and 33.3% of women.  The new findings should help mental health professionals to diagnose depression better in men, which would be nice \u2014 and also reduce the stigma of depression in the first place. So maybe it&amp;#039;s a little victory for everyone after all. And if your man-friend is hulking out on the daily? Maybe suggesting a visit to your friendly neighborhood clinical psychologist over another beer to chill him out.  Photo via OJO+ Follow Sam on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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