A man in his forties reads something his son’s paediatrician gave him, or watches a video his niece sent, and something lands hard. The exhaustion after social events that other people seem to find energising.…
It rarely begins as a decision to use drugs. It begins with a fourteen-hour shift, a two-hour drive, a rotation with no real days off, and someone on the crew who has something that makes…
It might have started with a genuine scare — a colleague’s heart attack, a relative’s diagnosis, an abnormal result that turned out to be nothing. Since then a man finds himself checking. He palpates the…
Cannabis occupies an odd space in the conversation about men's health. It has been legal in Canada for years, it is widely used, and the public discussion still tends to split into two unhelpful camps…
Asked how he is feeling, a man says fine. Pressed, he says he does not know. This is often taken as evasion — by partners, by clinicians, sometimes by the man himself, who assumes he…
Two patterns show up repeatedly in men who come in about relationships, and on the surface they look like opposites. One man cannot tolerate being alone. He organises his life around a partner's moods, avoids…
A layoff. A separation. A diagnosis. A move, a demotion, a death in the family, the end of a rotation that had structured the last eight years. Something changes, and a few weeks later a…
Anabolic steroid use is far more common than the number of men who mention it to a physician would suggest. It runs through gyms, through some trades, and through men in their thirties and forties…
A fair number of men sit in the parking lot for a few minutes before a first mental health appointment. The apprehension is rarely about the problem that brought them in. It is about the…
The mental picture most men carry of addiction involves someone who has lost everything — the job, the licence, the house, the family. Measured against that, a man who gets up at five, works a…
