Men’s Mental Health

“What kind of work do you do?” It’s a pretty common question. Given enough time making small talk there is a near certainty it will come up. I had a professor in grad school who…

It has been more than three months since parts of the country began enacting “shelter in place” orders and words like “lockdown” and “quarantine” became commonplace. By and large, it would appear these drastic, and…

I wrote recently on the idea of post-traumatic growth and how that concept may be helpful to keep in mind as we slowly begin moving towards normalcy while COVID-19 remains active. I started working on…

I think it’s safe to say the last couple of months have been traumatic. I even think it’s safe to stretch the clinical definition of what trauma is (per the DSM: “actual or threatened death,…

These are strange and difficult times. “Unprecedented” is the word that keeps being thrown about, and man does it fit. Virtually every major sport being suspended. Schools shutting down, sometimes closing for the entire year.…

These are anxious times, no doubt about it. All of Colorado, and many other parts of the country, are under “stay at home” orders. Large chunks of the country are shutting down, and the headlines…

As I said last time I am generally not a fan of clickbait “do these simple things and you’re cured!” sort of lists. I find them all too often to be the lowest-hanging kind of…

I’m not really a fan of “7 ways to cure your depression!” style lists. They usually over-promise and under-deliver. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that around 17 million Americans suffer from depression in…

I don’t usually get a lot of questions about the nuts and bolts of how therapy works. Occasionally another dad at a kid’s birthday party, or a new acquaintance making small talk will ask “So…