 |
| FAQ/Help |
| Calendar |
| Search |
|
Member
Member Since Nov 2014
Posts: 94
9 38 hugs
given |
Mar 07, 2015 at 09:51 PM
#1
Fellow men, have you experienced something in life that was deeply humiliating and destroyed your sense of manhood? After some things that happened in my life i feel shame to call myself a man anymore.
|
|
 Reply With Quote
|
|
Super Moderator
Community Support Team Community Liaison
Chat Leader 
Member Since May 2014
Location: Northeast USA New England
Posts: 17,527
(SuperPoster!)
10 2,327 hugs
given 
|
Mar 08, 2015 at 03:22 PM
#2
Mefisto I am sorry you have felt deeply hurt. Whatever happened to you cannot destroy your manhood because being a man is not dependent on how you perform in life. What does get crushed many times for me is the expectations others have about what I should do or believe. Being a man involves going against other's expectations and living out from our inner strength.
Maybe if you offer more of what is bothering you without giving names and places, then others could offer words of empathy and compassion. __________________ Super Moderator Community Support Team "Things Take Time" |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
 Mefisto, Onward2wards
|
|
Infamous Vampire Duck
Community Liaison
Member Since Dec 2009
Location: Mid West
Posts: 12,742
(SuperPoster!)
14 961 hugs
given
|
Mar 09, 2015 at 10:09 AM
#3
It's easy to be made to feel less of a man, or not a man, and very difficult to lose that feeling. One things that gets lost in defining what makes a man a man, is that it's nothing more than having an X and Y chromosome. No amount of humiliation can change that.
A good therapist can help you out a lot with feelings of inadequacy, well at least it has helped me a lot. __________________ “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” Gandhi |
|
|
Reply With Quote
|
|
Mefisto
|
| Reply |
This is an old thread. You probably should not post your reply to it, as the original poster is unlikely to see it.|
|
My Support Forums is the online community that was originally begun as the Psych Central Forums in 2001. It now runs as an independent self-help support group community for mental health, personality, and psychological issues and is overseen by a group of dedicated, caring volunteers from around the world.
Linear Mode
