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MIDDLE YEAR – ‘MALE MENOPAUSE’

It is wrong to call the emotional instability of a man’s middle years the ‘male menopause’. There are two reasons: he does not menstruate, and no changes occur in the production of his gonadotrophin hormones, his testosterone levels do not decrease, nor does he produce fewer sperms. But many middle-aged men do go through a period of emotional anxiety, of depression, and of stress. To call this the ‘male menopause’, because it occurs during the same years that a woman inevitably ceases to menstruate, is catchy and comforting. It is comforting because it implies that the ‘crisis of middle age’ is not due to a man’s actions or inactions, but to his altered hormones and, consequently, is inevitable. This is not true: our faults are not in our hormones, but in ourselves.

The emotional problems of middle age may be due to a man’s actions – or to his lack of action. They will only be solved if he alters his way of life. He does not lack hormones, he does not need hormone injections and they do not help!

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