You notice it before you can name it. He has stopped coming out. He is drinking more, or sleeping in his truck, or has become short-tempered over things that never used to bother him. Maybe…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
Penile cancer is genuinely rare in Canada, and most men will never encounter it. The difficulty is not how often it occurs but how long it typically takes to reach a physician. The average delay…
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…
