Adult Men
Everything we have written on Adult Men, in one place.
Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation: what’s right and overstated
Haidt’s argument in The Anxious Generation is that smartphones and social media, hitting kids hard around 2012, broke teen mental health. The data on adolescent depression and anxiety…
Jul 3, 2025
Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible
You already know something's off, and you've probably known for a while... months, maybe years.
Jul 1, 2025
PCP-psychiatrist handoff: when to switch
A lot of the psychiatric medication in this country is prescribed by primary care doctors, not psychiatrists.
Jun 30, 2025
Mental health records: background checks, gun ownership, licensure
This is one of the questions that comes up in the first appointment most often, particularly from guys who own firearms or work in jobs with security…
Jun 27, 2025
Off-label prescribing: what it means
A huge percentage of what psychiatrists prescribe is off-label, and most patients have no idea, which is its own problem.
Jun 25, 2025
Low T vs. Depression: What You Actually Need to Know
Guys come in convinced they have low T when they're actually depressed, and other guys come in convinced they're depressed when their testosterone is in…
Jun 25, 2025
Long-term med use realities (20-year horizons)
The honest answer to "can I stay on this medication for the rest of my life" is: we don't fully know what happens at 30 or 40 years out, because…
Jun 22, 2025
Antidepressant withdrawal vs relapse: distinguishing
Guys stop their antidepressant, feel terrible a couple weeks later, assume the depression is back, restart the medication. Sometimes that's right.
Jun 20, 2025
Depression, Explained
Depression ≠ sadness. Sadness has a thing it's about. Depression doesn't, it just follows you around like a Dementor sucking the light out of the world.
Jun 19, 2025
Why some clinicians won’t take insurance
I take insurance. A lot of psychiatrists in private practice don't.
Jun 17, 2025
PHP vs IOP vs Outpatient
These three terms get used like everybody knows what they mean and most patients don't, so they end up in the wrong level of care.
Jun 14, 2025
Freedom Costs Blood. Mental Health Costs Choices.
Freedom isn’t free. Neither is good mental health.
Jun 13, 2025