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Mankeeping Index™: Health Masking, Hidden Support Systems, and Male Dependency in Heterosexual Relationships
The Mankeeping Index™ introduces a new way to measure health masking in relationships. By capturing hidden support systems that stabilize daily conditions, it reveals how symptoms are suppressed, diagnoses are delayed, and disease burden is underestimated. This framework is especially critical for conditions such as Long COVID, ME/CFS, and autoimmune disease, where environment, stress, and daily regulation directly shape how illness appears and is recognized.
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