Aging

[ad_1] Part 4             In part 1, part 2, and part 3, I described the problem of depression, the extent of the problem, and why our current approach is misguided and ultimately ineffective, why focusing on men can help men and women, and the beginnings of a new approach for understanding what causes depression and […]

[ad_1] I have been working with violent males for more than fifty years. It began for me November 21, 1969, when I held my new-born son in my arms and made a promise that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me and do everything I

[ad_1] Part 3: Depression and Trauma             In Part 1, I described my own history of depression, how pervasive it has become, and my Moonshot Mission for Healing Mankind. In Part 2, I discussed the evolution of a new approach for treating and preventing depression. Here I will describe why our present way of treating

[ad_1] Part 2             We continue to see acts of violence perpetrated by males. We know that depression turned inward can lead to suicide and turned outward can turn to violence. Most depressed people are neither suicidal or violent, but understanding depression can help save lives. In Part 1, I described my life-long interest in

[ad_1] Part 1 I’ve been interested in depression for most of my life. When I was five years old my middle-aged father became increasingly depressed because he couldn’t make a living supporting his family. In despair, he took an overdose of sleeping pills. Fortunately, he didn’t die, but our lives were never the same. He

[ad_1] “The male has paid a heavy price for his masculine ‘privilege’ and power,” said Dr. Herb Goldberg in his book The Hazards of Being Male. “He is out of touch with his emotions and his body. He is playing by the rules of the male game plan and with lemming-like purpose he is destroying

[ad_1] Welcome to the third installment of this three-part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.             The idea of MenAlive began on November 21, 1969 with the birth of our first son, Jemal. Over the years MenAlive was grown from a commitment to my son to be a different kind

[ad_1] In Part 1, we explored how the wolf metaphor has been viewed as negative and how the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park created positive changes that can offer us real guidance about how to heal mankind and humanity.             Mark Pirtle, author of Is Your story Making You Sick: Heal Your Story,

[ad_1] “Kids have a hole in their soul in the shape of their dad.” —Roland Warren, past president of the National Fatherhood Initiative.             I’ve been dealing with the father wound my whole life. I was five years old when my father took an overdose of sleeping pills and was committed to Camarillo State Mental

[ad_1] Maybe I’m just lucky. Maybe I haven’t put myself in enough risky situations. Or maybe — as I like to believe — I’ve never broken a bone because I’m simply built differently. Among the 427,000 members of the subreddit r/NeverBrokenABone, this is the only obvious conclusion as to why none of us have ever