Rehab for Men

Men and women often experience addiction differently from one another. Social pressures and cultural expectations influence the issues that drive the development of addiction. These pressures are often interrelated to concepts concerning our roles as men or women. Men tend to have very restrictive societal expectations, and do not have the emotional freedom to deal with stress, negative emotions, or anxiety in an open manner. Men have traditionally been viewed as being susceptible to addiction and consequently gender-specific treatment designed to address the unique needs of men in American society developed only recently.

Rehabilitation for Men deals with the basic issues concerning addiction and provides group, family and individual psychotherapy. It also provides an in-depth focus on the issues that specifically affect males that both provoke and sustain substance abuse and addiction

Men face a number of stereotypes and “rules” for conduct that are tough to live up to. Some of society’s rules include:

• Men are dominant
• Men don’t cry
• Men don’t express emotions freely
• Men are independent of the approval of others
• Men carry the responsibility of providing for a family
• Men neither need nor want comforting
• Men suffer quietly and in solitude
• Men never admit to defeat

These are outdated ideas, but males in the USA are still profoundly influenced by them. TV, the movies, books and media hang on to these stereotypes. They’re easy to believe but hard to live with. These stereotypes greatly inhibit recovery, which is why rehab for men is the perfect way to tear down outmoded ideas about masculinity and really treat the roots of addiction in men.