‘Big boys don’t cry’ syndrome behind men’s aversion to seeing doctors

A new survey has revealed 70 percent of men may be ignoring symptoms of treatable health conditions and don’t visit their doctors sometimes for as long as six months to a year after experiencing disease symptoms.

The study results confirmed what men’s health experts have thought for some time: that men are in denial.and they do not care for their personal health because of ”big boys don”t cry” syndrome. Study team attributes the mindset to societal values that condition boys to ”tough it out” in the face of injury. “When a boy is five years old and skins his knee, he’s told that big boys don’t cry.”

Researchers said the statistics are scary, considering that many diseases can be treated before they get out of hand.