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I Don't Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real
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I Don't Want to Talk About It

Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

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Narrator Adam Verner
Length 12 hours 28 minutes
Language English
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Each year, millions of men and women fall prey to depression. While the disorder has been called "psychiatry's most treatable condition," less than one in five get help. In recent years, the silence surrounding depression in women has begun to lift, but only now, with this powerful groundbreaking work, does psychotherapist Terrence Real expose a virtual epidemic of the disorder in men.

Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced Real that there are two forms of depression: "overt" and "covert." Feeling the stigma of depression's "unmanliness," many men hide
their condition not only from family and friends but even from
themselves. Attempts to escape depression fuel many of the problems we think of as typically male—difficulty with intimacy, workaholism,
alcoholism, abusive behavior, and rage. By directing their pain outward, depressed men hurt the people they love, and, most tragically, pass their condition on to their children.

A master storyteller, Real mixes penetrating analysis with poignant, compelling tales of the men and women whom he treats. He writes with passion and searing clarity about his own experiences with depression, as the son of a depressed, violent father, and the father of two young sons.

Peggy Papp of the Ackerman Family Institute calls this book "a pathway out of the darkness." Real teaches us how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse. I Don't Want to Talk About It
offers great wisdom, hope, and practical guidance to men and their families. This is one of the most important and straightforward books ever written about men.

Terrence Real is a psychotherapist in private practice. He has taught couples and family therapy, principally at the Family Institute of Cambridge, for twenty years. He is also the author of How Can I Get Through to You? and has been featured on NBC Nightly News and Good Morning America, as well as in the New York Times, Psychology Today, and numerous academic publications. He lives with his wife and two sons in Newton, Massachusetts.

Adam Verner is a full-time narrator and voice talent with over one hundred titles recorded. He is the recipient of AudioFile Earphones Awards for Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck and The Big It by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Adam earned his MFA in acting from the Chicago College of the Fine Arts at Roosevelt University.

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"Offers not only crucial insights to men suffering from depression but also comfort and guidance to the women who love them." ---John Bradshaw Expand reviews
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