["Ongoing loss"] The devastation that a man feels when he loses his wife and children after divorce is convulsed outwards in a silent scream that society seldom seems to notice. Often society doesn’t want to hear it and men themselves are not equipped to articulate their agony and sense of ongoing loss and failure, much less deal with it. Most divorced men feel that everything is against them - their ex-wives, the legal system, society itself. Unfortunately, this perception is often rooted in reality. [Aching Loneliness]..."I hung on grimly to sanity and purpose. After work, walking home in the rain on a dark winter’s night, back to a large gloomy, empty, childless house was misery itself. Loneliness is like an aching cancer of the soul." ---------- “Frozen anger leads to depression, a sense of worthlessness and hopelessness, leading many men into dysfunctional behavior patterns, depression and stress-related diseases...” ---------- ["An Unbearable Burden"]...Stuart Horn, a clinical psychologist who specializes in the challenges that men face, says: “In my experience single and divorced men are the most vulnerable group in relation to successful suicide. Men who lose their wives, lose a family life as well as contact with their usual social context, such as socializing with other families. One must never underestimate what a big void in a man’s life divorce brings. ---------- Excerpts from joymag.co.za/article.php?id=47
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 08:45:49 +0000
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