Depression treatment has genuinely changed over the past decade, and for men who have tried two or three antidepressants without much benefit, that matters. It also means the subject now attracts an enormous amount of…
The most common way psychiatric medication ends is not a plan. It is a man who has been feeling steady for several months, who never much liked being on it, who runs out on a…
The medication worked. That is the frustrating part. The mornings stopped being unbearable, the constant background dread lifted, and work became possible again. Then, somewhere in the second month, a man notices that his interest…
The word enabling gets used carelessly, usually as an accusation, and it has left a lot of families frightened that any act of kindness is making things worse. A father wonders whether paying his son's…
The leave itself is difficult enough. What men often find harder is the week before returning. Sleep goes again. The old dread comes back on Sunday evening. There is a specific and very common worry…
The liver gives almost no warning. A man can drink heavily for fifteen years, feel entirely normal, pass a work medical, and have a liver that has been quietly changing the whole time. There is…
A line lets go on a rig. A vehicle rolls on an ice road. A man finds a coworker who did not survive, or holds pressure on an injury while waiting for help that takes…
A man who quit smoking five years ago and now goes through a vape pod every day or two will often say, without irony, that he does not use nicotine any more. Another keeps pouches…
A man in his late forties is asked who he would call at two in the morning if something went badly wrong. He thinks about it for a while and answers: his wife. Asked who…
Almost nobody sets out to become dependent on a benzodiazepine. The prescription usually starts for a good reason — a period of severe anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia after a bereavement, a rough stretch that needed…
