Overt, or acute, depression has a definite set of criteria for diagnosis. I do have a checklist. I ask people to look for three domains. The first is self-medication. If a woman self-medicates, it's to take pain away.
Men often complain of feeling nothing.
Men go numb. The man has to have a level of intensity in order to break through the numbness and feel anything at all. So the first leg of this triangle is self-medication. There's a sense that he's really withdrawing from life itself. And then the third is lashing out.