"I just assumed life sucks and that's that." So thought Bill Thielkerand he just kept going through the motions of living. He was quite surprised when his doctor diagnosed depression. Time reports that, although two thirds of those diagnosed with depression are women.

in many ways depressed men are worse off than depressed women. They are less likely to recognize their condition through the cloud of seemingly beside-the-point feelings like anger, apathy and low self-esteem. And even when they know what they've got, they're less likely to acknowledge it to others or seek treatment. They are also more likely to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol and four times as likely to kill themselves.

In a response to this terrible situation the National Institute of Mental Health is releasing a campaign through television, radio and the internet called "Real Men, Real Depression" designed to counter the widely held view amongst men that mood disorders, like depression, are a sign of weakness.

All men in western societies have been socialised to believe that they must be able handle their own problems. The sad fact is that they cannot and suicide and substance abuse statistics provide conclusive evidence of this. Where feminism failed both men and women is that it failed to recognise that in the things that really matter, health, wellbeing, happiness, fulfillment, men are far worse off than women. Making women equal to men is doing them a huge disservice.

Read the article in Time here.