I am interested in gender and depression, and more specifically, the role that gender roles play in shaping men’s or masculine persons’ self-understanding and interpretations of their experience in ways that compromise abilities to recognize the needs for support, and in diagnosis and treatment of depression. In this presentation, I will examine these concerns using the lens of epistemic injustice. I consider how men’s or masculine persons’ epistemic agency is thwarted due to gender norms and how this may undermine their ability to care for their mental health. Further, I argue the DSM-5 criteria reveal gender bias in the criteria used for diagnosis of depression and that this intersects with gender bias among health professionals to generate epistemic injustice and critically threaten effective and ethical mental health care for men and masculine persons who seek support and treatment for mental health and depression. Finally, I explore methods for addressing these concerns and advancing epistemic justice in the care of men and masculine persons and dealing with depression aimed at mental health care providers, the DSM-5 criteria, and men’s developing self-understanding. My argument examines a ‘masculine’ version of depression, which is often unrecognized as depression due to not aligning with traditional symptoms of depression. This can cause mental health professionals and clinicians to unrecognize signs of depression. This can also cause masculine persons to misunderstand their experience as depression. Further, the DSM-5 criteria list symptoms of depression that do not consider the ‘masculine’ version of depression.