Friendship
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AI girlfriends and male loneliness
The number of guys using Replika, Character.ai, and the half-dozen newer AI companion apps has gone vertical in the last couple of years, and it’s showing up in…
Jul 8, 2025
Decline of male friendship after 40
The data on this is what it sounds like.
Jul 5, 2025Group Therapy: what actually happens in the room
Group therapy is the treatment I refer to most often and the one patients fight me hardest on. The fight is almost always the same: I don’t want…
Jun 4, 2025
Loneliness as diagnosable risk factor
Loneliness isn't a DSM diagnosis and nobody's going to pretend it is, but it functions like one in terms of risk, and the data on it for middle-aged men…
May 3, 2025