Men’s Mental Health

Depression in men often masquerades as something else entirely. Rather than sadness or tearfulness, men frequently experience depression as a relentless internal critic—a voice that constantly judges, belittles, and undermines.

Anxiety can look different in men. Here is what it can look like and what to do about it.

Recognizing Atypical Depression: The Symptoms You Might Be Overlooking When people think of depression, they often imagine persistent sadness, fatigue, and withdrawal from daily activities. However, not all depression looks the same. Atypical depression is…

Often when men make their way into my office it is during a time of crisis. Not a Hollywood style psychiatric crisis that ends with a straitjacket and a robotic psychologist reciting a list of…

“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.…