Part 3: Depression and Trauma In Part 1, I described my own history of depression, how pervasive it has become, and my Moonshot Mission for Healing Mankind. In Part 2, I discussed the evolution of a new approach for treating and preventing depression. Here I will describe why our present way of treating depression
Part 2 We continue to see acts of violence perpetrated by males. We know that depression turned inward can lead to suicide and turned outward can turn to violence. Most depressed people are neither suicidal or violent, but understanding depression can help save lives. In Part 1, I described my life-long interest in understanding
Part 1 I’ve been interested in depression for most of my life. When I was five years old my middle-aged father became increasingly depressed because he couldn’t make a living supporting his family. In despair, he took an overdose of sleeping pills. Fortunately, he didn’t die, but our lives were never the same. He was
“The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine ‘privilege’ and power,” said Dr. Herb Goldberg in his book The Hazards of Being Male. “He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying himself—emotionally,
Welcome to the third installment of this three-part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. The idea of MenAlive began on November 21, 1969 with the birth of our first son, Jemal. Over the years MenAlive was grown from a commitment to my son to be a different kind of
In Part 1, we explored how the wolf metaphor has been viewed as negative and how the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park created positive changes that can offer us real guidance about how to heal mankind and humanity. Mark Pirtle, author of Is Your story Making You Sick: Heal Your Story, Heal
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