September 10, 2024 was World Suicide Prevention Day. According to the World Health Organization, “Every year 726,000 people take their own life and there are many more people who make suicide attempts.” When I was five years old my mid-life father took an overdose of sleeping pills after he had become increasingly depressed because he
Part 3 In Part 1, I shared my challenges with depression, the fact that the suicide rate for males is so much higher than it is for females, and how these realties have impacted men and their families. In Part 2, I looked more deeply into the underlying causes and potential solutions to this
Part 1 I have been a health care professional for more than fifty years. During that time I have risen in my profession and helped thousands of men and women to live fully, love deeply, and make a positive difference in the world. I have also been stressed, depressed, and suicidal during much of my
Part 6 – The Future of Mental Health for Men This is the 6th part of the seven-part series. You can check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 if you’d like to read any you have missed. As a mental health professional over the last fifty-plus years I’ve observed that
Part 5 – Male vs. Female Depression This is the 5th of a 7-part series. You can check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 if you’d like to read any you have missed. Having confronted my own fears about “mental illness” and worry that I would end up in a mental hospital
Part 4 Four: Aces Are Great in Poker But Challenging in Life You can check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. It never occurred to me that my lifelong anger and depression, and later my two broken marriages, had anything to do with my childhood. All that changed in 1998
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