Gynecomastia: Psychological Issues





Men have great difficulty with this disease and affliction and it is no laughing matter. It causes great distress, emotional pain, self-consciousness, body and self-image type issues that have to be addressed, seperately, in tandem with and throughout the process or treatment plan.

Although the physcial medical part of the condition can be dealt with, with immediacy, gradual results over time, a deliberate effort has to be made, to deal with the emotional scarring, self-doubt, minority-type complex behaviour, self-acceptance, confidence etc. has to be worked on as well.

Even is weight loss or meds help with getting rid of the breasts, or breast reduction surgery has taken place, the breasts might be gone, but the problems for many has just begun – the medical success will not necessarily ‘cure’ what ails the sufferers of gyncomastia. The medical treatments will not eliminate the underlying and resulting psycholocigal issues at hand and play here.

For all other causes and especially the more permanent (seemingly), lingering conditions, where the tissue has started to harden and the women/female breasts have become more like fixtures, medical intervention and drastic steps, like surgery is the only known physical remedy to get rid of them for good.

Even if the signs, breasts themselves, tissue, excess female features, physical encumbrances are all gone, removed and lifted, many deeper, more layered, psychological scars will still linger and need to be addressed.

Self and body image repair, self-accpetance and confidence need to be restores.

Accepting the body and physical appearance, appreciating it for what it is, forms part of the healing.

You need to put the past, scars and what happened behind you and move on – come to terms with the reality, process that you have undergone and go beyond it, looking towards a healthy, balanced future – as a man with normal breasts again!

Do not allow the emotional impact, self-consciousness, embarrasment, ridicule of others, devastating emotions, feelings of shame, humiliation and such rule or ruin your life.

It is normal and natural to have these feelings – there is nothing wrong with you.

Your masculinity do not lie in your breasts, but in your chest one patient once said – it is about your heart, who you are, not what you look like or the problems that you face physcially with gynecomastia.

Self-hate needs to be dispelled in all areas of your life. You are not deemed or rendered powerless or a victim by this condition – you can take control and deal effectively with the gynecomastia struggles as well as the accompanying anxiety

Do not subject yourself to taunting, self-consciousness or the fears and uncertainty that breast reduction and surgery might hold for you. Educate and empower yourself, learning as much as you can about what ails and will help you get through it. Regain control, reclaim your man-hood and no longer feel emasculated. Healing is about more than physcial scars. Allow for some time to deal and cope with all the challenges and effects that gynecomastia might have on your life.