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…
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 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…
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…
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…
A good number of men arrive at a urology appointment having already concluded that the matter is closed. They tried one of the oral medications, perhaps a sample from a friend or something ordered online,…
The oral medications for erectile dysfunction are among the most recognisable drugs in the world, and also among the most misunderstood. Men arrive at appointments having already formed firm opinions about them — that they…
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…
