Life Stages And Transitions
Death is the one appointment nobody misses, yet rarely gets discussed. Men, in particular, have developed an impressive range of techniques for not thinking about it — most of which turn out to be thinking about it differently rather than not thinking about it at all.
Relationships
There are approximately 4,000 licensed medications available on the NHS. Not one of them is a pint with people you like. This is, on the evidence, an oversight.
Practical Tools
Behavioural activation is one of the best-evidenced techniques in clinical psychology. It is also, in its basic form, the instruction to do things when you don't feel like doing things. Which sounds, on the face of it, like advice your grandmother could have given you for free.
Body and Mind
Testosterone has become the explanation of choice for an impressive range of male problems — aggression, risk-taking, mid-life misery, and the invention of the leaf blower. The reality is considerably more interesting and considerably less tidy.
Relationships
Loneliness among men has reached levels that would, if it were a physical disease, prompt a public health emergency. Instead it gets a shrug, a suggestion to join a club, and a change of subject.
Life Stages And Transitions
Grief is one of the few experiences that arrives without asking permission, ignores all previous arrangements, and refuses to behave in the way you've been told it should. Men, in particular, tend to find this inconvenient.
Understanding Your Mind
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.
Practical Tools
There will come a time when 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.
Work And Retirement
There's a 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.
Body and Mind
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.
Relationships
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.
Understanding Your Mind
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.