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Wilms

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1. You wrote:

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 09:48 AM

Sep 2013

"Hence the psychiatrists and therapist and Prozac and various doctors and trainers and dietician and posting on Internet support sites and new wardrobe and cycling and running and so on and so forth."

Who are your role models? And I mean YOUR role models...that you've chosen?

While your father may always lurk in the back of your mind, there are others who SEE you for who you are. You are seeing you through your father's eye, not theirs.

Why did your PT say what he did? Why does that kid down the block like you? Or the owner of the local store? See what I'm asking?

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Lack of male role models, abusive childhood, subsequent self hatred. [View all] Denninmi Sep 2013 OP

You wrote: Wilms Sep 2013 #1

Great questions. Denninmi Sep 2013 #2

Well, there are role model-worthy behaviors you've witnessed. Wilms Sep 2013 #3

You betcha. Denninmi Sep 2013 #4

I think your experience re: masculinity is, to a much smaller degree, experienced by most young men. lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #5

D, listen. This is probably way above my pay grade. Warren DeMontague Sep 2013 #6

Denninmi, I hear you quite well. Although my own background regarding my father was not as . . . radicalliberal Sep 2013 #7

Guys, thank you so much. And, I apologize, please don't worry about me. Denninmi Sep 2013 #8

I just wanted to say... opiate69 Sep 2013 #9

Hope you're feeling better and back in the gym, D. n/t lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #10

Thanks for asking. I'm in a better mood. Denninmi Sep 2013 #11

I like how Covert Bailey described the mental health benefits of running lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #12

Yeah, that's pretty good. Denninmi Sep 2013 #13