Why London men avoid therapy for depression (and why CBT is different from what you expect)
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that many London men know but rarely talk about. You show up to work. You answer the emails. You go to the gym. You appear, from every external measure, to be fine. But inside, something has gone quiet. A persistent flatness. A short fuse you cannot explain. A slow draining of motivation, meaning, and energy that you keep pushing through. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone and what you are describing has a name. Why men in London are less likely to seek help for depression Depression affects approximately one in eight men in the UK, yet men are significantly less likely than women to seek any form of psychological support. In a city like London, where professional identity and performance are tightly bound to self-worth, admitting to low mood or persistent emptiness can feel like a form of failure. The result is that many men wait an average of three to five years before reaching out for help, by which point mild depression has often becom...