What Depression Looks Like in Men
Depression in men is under-diagnosed, under-treated and over-fatal. A significant part of the reason is that most men — and many of the people around them — don't recognise it when it's happening.
Helping a Friend Through a Rough Patch
At some point, someone you care about is going to be struggling. You'll know something is wrong. You'll want to help. And then you'll have absolutely no idea what to do. This article is for that moment.
Purpose After Retirement: Building a Life That Doesn't Need a Job Title
At some point in the first year of retirement, usually around Tuesday afternoon, it dawns on most men that endless freedom and purposeless emptiness are much harder to tell apart than the brochure suggested.
Sleep and Mental Health: What Happens When It Goes Wrong
Most men will cheerfully admit to surviving on five hours' sleep as though it's a point of pride. It isn't. It's a slow-motion act of self-sabotage with a remarkably comprehensive list of consequences.
Why Male Friendship Is Harder to Maintain After 40
Men are losing their friends at a rate that would alarm them if they noticed it was happening. Most don't notice until they're trying to think of someone to call and the list is shorter than expected.
What Are Cognitive Distortions and Why Do They Matter?
Your brain is lying to you. Not occasionally, not in unusual circumstances — regularly, systematically, and with considerable conviction. Here's what it's doing and why it matters.
Midlife Reappraisal: What's Really Happening at 45
It's not a crisis. It's not a cliché. It's a perfectly normal psychological process that most men are completely unprepared for — which is why it tends to arrive like a lorry through the living room wall.
Work, Retirement and the Question of Who You Are Without Either
Work is not just what men do. For most men, it is a substantial part of what they are. Which makes whatever happens to it — stress, redundancy, retirement — considerably more than a practical problem.
A Practical Man's Guide to Looking After His Mind
The self-help industry is worth approximately $15 billion and contains roughly $14.5 billion worth of noise. This article is an attempt to identify what's left. There is a version of self-help that involves getting up at 5, journaling for forty-five minutes, meditating, cold-showering, and visualising your best
Your Body and Your Mind Are Not Separate Departments
For centuries, medicine treated the body and mind as entirely distinct concerns. This turned out to be wrong in almost every direction you care to look.
Long-Term Partnerships: What Keeps Them Working
Most men put more research into buying a car than into understanding what makes a relationship last. This is probably not unrelated to the divorce statistics.
Getting Older: What's Actually Happening to Your Mind
Ageing is inevitable. A lot of what men believe about what it does to their minds, however, turns out to be either wrong or considerably more complicated than they've been led to expect.