When dad's bad mood makes home a living hell, is he a tyrant or troubled?

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Men's mental health issues tend to be neglected. We need to start asking 'why is dad mad' instead of saying 'that's how it is'.

During our conversation my friend revealed that her dad, who now resides in a retirement home, has spent the last few decades dedicating his time to writing a book about how to reinstate apartheid because he believes it truly works. It screams of delusion.

We have a habit of calling our fathers mad men, and succumbing to their lunacy to the point of acceptance and shrugging it off. But what if we searched a little deeper and found that certain kinds of behaviours are actually a form of undiagnosed psychosis, especially among a certain generation? She says, and I paraphrase:"Remember the days when we could get through a day without taking a pill first thing in the morning?" Our fathers got through many days without taking a pill first thing in the morning but we didn't, did we? We, the ones who bore the brunt. And we should consider that getting through a day without treating a problem you don't even know exists is hardly getting through anything at all.

Research shows this can lead to depression and other mood disorders, which leads to rage, anger, irritability, disinterest in family or family emotions, and the inability to fulfill daily household chores as contribution in men.

 

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I agree as men turn first to professions and later on there is no stability at home because the individual himself is facing his childhood life at a later stage and that is where the mental breakdown starts

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