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3 Little Known Stressors Killing Men and the Women Who Love Them

  It’s no secret that stress levels are on the rise.  Much of our present-day stress involves our minds going around and around worrying about what could happen. “Stress—or as I like to think of it,...

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The Simple Solution the Richest 1% Hope You’ll Never Find

  I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that we humans in the world are experiencing some serious problems.  Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, two research scientists working through The...

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The Masculine Mystique and Male Depression: Embracing Your Vocation of Destiny

  There is something amiss with men today, and I’m still trying to figure it out.  I’ve been working with men, and the women who love them, for more than 40 years.  Actually, I’ve been on a quest to...

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The Crisis Enters Year Five: Are We Ready to Address the Real Problem?

According to Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School...

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Why Is My Husband Depressed and How Do I Help Him?

What we call depression has likely been around before recorded history and has been recognized for thousands of years.  Aretaeus of Cappadocia (circa 81-138 AD) is credited with the first clinical...

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Boomer Men, Stress, Depression, Anger and Suicide

In a recent interview with Brent Green, author of Generation Reinvention: How Boomers Today Are Changing Business, Marketing, Aging and the Future, he and I provide an in-depth, up-to-date look at the...

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Men and Stress – Is Your Job Driving You Over the Edge?

We know that depression is on the rise all over the world and men are 4 to 18 times (depending on age) more likely to commit suicide than are women.  People report that job stresses are a major factor...

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From Here to Eternity: Stopping Male Stress and the Epidemic of Suicides

I have a personal, as well as professional, interest in male depression and suicide.  It began with my father who was born in Jacksonville, Florida December 17, 1906.  He was one of eight children...

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Are You (or are you married to) A Depressed Husband? Maybe It’s IMS – Take...

After writing, The Irritable Male Syndrome:  Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression, I received hundreds of letters from women and men concerned about the impact that...

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Men’s Health: The Real Reason Men Die Sooner and Live Sicker

I never realized how lonely life could be until I got divorced.  My wife got custody of the kids and I didn’t realize how much I would miss seeing them every day until I became the “non-custodial...

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Sex and Depression: A Gender-Specific Approach to Healing

Depression runs in my family.  I became aware of that fact when my father took an overdose of sleeping pills when I was five years old.  Growing up I had little understanding of what had happened or...

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The Myth of Mental Illness

A new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is due out next year and there is renewed discussion about what constitutes a “mental illness.”  One of the world’s leading psychiatrists is...

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Our Manic-Depressive World: What’s Testosterone and Cortisol Got to Do With It?

Have you noticed that we seem to continually go through huge ups and downs in our lives?  Our economy goes on a manic run, then crashes. We get all hyped up for another war then become depressed when...

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Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self Compassion

Elisha Goldstein is cofounder of The Center for Mindful Living in Los Angeles. He is author of several books including Uncovering Happiness, The Now Effect, Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious...

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Uncovering Happiness: Part 2

Elisha Goldstein is cofounder of The Center for Mindful Living in Los Angeles. He is author of several books including Uncovering Happiness, The Now Effect, Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious...

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Fathers, Anxiety, and Depression: Can Father’s Day Begin a Day of Healing for...

I grew up with a depressed father and became a depressed son. My father took an overdose of sleeping pills when I was five years old, following years feeling anxious and depressed because he couldn’t...

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Don’t Get Buried Alive by Negativity: How to Stay Positive in a Dangerous World

Erin Kelly, the Social Justice Editor of the Good Men Project, is concerned about the increasing negativity we all are experiencing in our lives and in our world. “Work, home and family can be...

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Independence Day and The Birth of Civ 2

Last 4th of July Carlin and I decided to get out of town and watch the parade in Mendocino. I brought a book to read while we waited for the parade to begin–Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for the...

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Depression, Springsteen, and Me: On Moods and Madness

I recently read an article, “Why Bruce Springsteen’s Depression Revelation Matters” and it reminded me how important it is for well-known people to talk about their own mental illness and mental...

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Being Bipolar: Living and Loving in a World of Fire and Ice

Most people don’t know I’m bipolar. After years of loving kindness shown to me by my wife, therapy with a caring and skilling therapist, and medications to help keep me in balance, my illness is in...

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