A great deal of serious male unhappiness is specifically the kind that does not look like unhappiness at all, which is part of why it so often goes unnoticed until late. One is that distress in men can surface in forms that no one, including the man himself, reads as depression. Unhappiness that does not arrive as sadnessDepression is usually described in terms of low mood, tearfulness, and loss of interest. The number that should not be looked away fromIf the symptom research hints that male unhappiness is under-recognised, the suicide figures state it plainly. What the evidence does and does not supportA few limits keep this from hardening into a stereotype.