Quote Originally Posted by Quantiq View Post
Yeah, I see what you mean. I guess really because of current culture and social stigmas people often feel gender separation. Even within someone's own gender I find many people keep to themselves about their own issues and eventually it develops into a catastrophic problem. An example of this I would think would be the massive numbers of people with depression. I wonder how much of that could be solved if people were more open to discussion.

You're right that the only way to improve this is to improve yourself. Let others follow by example. I'm really going to try to be a lot more open from now on.
I think the true problem lies in peers not wanting to hear about others' problems. Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people that do, but a large majority of the population (at least that I've interacted with) are indifferent and don't care unless it's a really close friend. There are only a few people that I'd ever talk with about my problems, and I've either known them my entire life or are really close friends.

Also, guys are raised to be "tough" and never get emotional and never talk about "mushy" stuff, because that's what a "wussy" does. I'm sure you all have noticed from your interactions that much more women than men freely talk about their problems--I know that this is the case for what I've seen, anyways.