“We live in a machine that is designed to get us to neglect what’s important about life.”
Depression and anxiety come from how we think we’re supposed to live vs. how we really should. Continue Reading
Depression
The promise and the peril of drinking by yourself
If it makes no health or fiscal sense, why do it? There are reasons. Continue Reading
Male friendships: Shift the paradigms and temper the expectations
Christmas cards, BYU, Divorces, WaPo, and much more. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 75: Is it OK for guys to be depressed?
I’m a guy, and I often feel lonely and sad. Is that OK to discuss, however? And we shift society’s views on this? Continue Reading
Loneliness and the rise of the partisan fringe
We often look at fringe groups and think “Gah, they’re crazy!” That’s potentially true. What if they are just lonely and seeking? Continue Reading
Our COVID mental health reckoning … or not?
The prevailing idea about “post-COVID” is that we’d see a big mental health decline, but that’s something with more nuance than we realize. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 30: “How’s the crazy?”
Work has never been the most “woke” place when it comes to mental health issues, and that’s largely the focus of this podcast episode. Continue Reading
The Blunder Years, Episode 24: On male anxiety and depression
Male anxiety probably needs to be discussed a little bit more than it currently is. So, here’s 31 minutes where it does come up. Continue Reading