According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 80 percent of all suicides are committed by men. During these uncertain times, counselors and therapists have noticed an increased occurrence of suicidal thoughts among their male patients. It’s understandable why so many people are feeling despondent. The pandemic has heightened anxiety, depression, isolation, and loneliness for countless people. Men, however, often have a harder time coping with these feelings because of societal pressures surrounding the male identity.
Read MoreDepression does not only affect the person who has it but also those around them. As a spouse, you will see changes in the way your partner acts, how he talks, how much energy he has, and your relationship overall. Supporting someone with depression is a challenge, and there are certain specifics in the way men tend to experience this disorder.
Read MoreToday I want to explore some ideas around depression and different levels of depression intervention from superficial ones to deeper ones, having to do with self esteem and negative self-critic and worthlessness, things like that.
Read MoreRelationship experts believe that the COVID-19 lockdown will lead to a rise in divorce rates in the world. Many people are anxious about spending too much time with others, no matter how close they are. But what are some new things people are doing to step out on their partners? Is relationship/marriage loneliness during the pandemic pushing people into cheating more so?
Read MoreGay relationships face many of the same challenges as heterosexual relationships - who does the chores, how is the money used, what about kids? However, they also have to deal with additional challenges that are not as clear and that might blur the lines of what is a healthy relationship.
Read MoreThe autism spectrum and other neurodiversity are characterized by learning, thinking, communication differences, and restricted interests and behaviors. These differences impact a person’s cognitive, social, and behavioral development.
Read MoreMen often use anger to mask vulnerability. People, and men particularly, get angry to cover the painful feelings of helplessness or worthlessness and convert them into feelings of power and control. Over time, some people develop a habit of transforming hurtful emotions into anger and self-harming behaviors to avoid dealing with them.
Read MoreTherapists do a lot of things in session that a client may or may not be aware of, and to have the full experience of counseling, it’s important to look at all of the different hats that a counselor or therapist wears in a session to help facilitate your growth and awareness.
Read MoreDivorces and break-ups are emotionally fraught. Even if it was all very friendly, there is still grief, loss, and perhaps resentment to work through. All of these emotions can make us feel hostility towards our ex-spouse and make us want to reduce contact. We might never want to communicate with them again but if we have children, we have a responsibility to co-parent, and that means that it’s important to stay in touch and work as a team.
Read MoreThe discrimination and stigma gay men face on a regular basis can have a severe impact on mental health. According to the American Psychiatric Association, one in six gay men have made at least one suicide attempt in their lifetime.
Read MoreAnxiety has many origins, but one topic that elicits anxiety in many people, especially now during COVID, is their marriage and what to do about it when it’s not working for them anymore. Sometimes, anxiety manifests as a result of repressing emotions and not dealing (or knowing how to deal) with marriage problems that you might be confronted with.
Read MorePregnancy loss is a devastating experience that can change your relationship forever. To cope with the emotional impact of fetal demise or pregnancy loss, support your wife through this experience, mourn together, take good care of yourselves, and seek support.
Read MoreInfertility affects around 10-15 percent of couples of reproductive age globally. The development of more successful and advanced techniques for infertility treatment and postponement of childbearing in women has increased the number of couples seeking IVF in recent years.
Read MoreMillennials are doing many things differently to the generations before them. They have different attitudes towards work, money, and relationships as well that manifest in different behaviors. In particular, they have another approach to marriage, romantic relationships, and separation than other generations.
Read MoreI’m not especially great at being bored, but have learned quite a bit about how to deal with boredom through COVID-19 and shutdown. I have learned several ways to approach boredom, besides the obvious “find-something-to-do-about it” solution. As far as finding things to do, I do think that that has been quite beneficial, however, in terms of beating boredom during the pandemic.
Read MoreTo say that the pandemic has been disruptive to most people would be putting it lightly. Many have found their routines totally changed and a lot of new responsibilities. A particular situation that many parents are dealing with is that the kids no longer go to school but rather have to learn online. This puts more pressure on the parents to manage their children’s learning, ensure everything gets done, and also cope with their work and household chores that have not disappeared.
Read MoreMany people say they want a healthy relationship, yet find themselves time and again falling into unhealthy relationship habits. Codependency is a common problem many individuals face. Codependency is when a person belongs to a one-sided relationship where one person relies on the other for all of their emotional and self-esteem needs.
Read MoreThe idea of accepting our anger, especially for men, might be foreign, counterintuitive or just not helpful when it comes to doing something about it. In our culture, we tend to glamorize anger in movies, and then suppress it when we need to use it.
Read MoreSexual addiction refers to a compulsive need to engage in sexual activity that provides a sort of “fix”, a “high”. While people generally enjoy sex, people with an addiction in this regard feel a pressing need to engage in it to the point where it dominates their whole life.
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