Posts Tagged ‘psychotherapy’

Therapists and Depressed Men

Written by John on June 26th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Travis Hightower at Flickr I spent years in therapy, depressed the whole time, perhaps getting a temporary lift, but quickly losing whatever short-term benefit it may have provided. Apparently, this is a common experience for men, and usually the problem is traced back to the difficulty many men have in expressing [...]

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Tags: Fear, feelings, men, psychotherapy, relationsh, self-esteem, shame, stigma, women
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Treatment: The Depression Policy

Written by John on December 6th, 2007
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Photo Credit – JesterArts – Stockxpert One of my wake-up moments arrived decades ago when I read a New York Review of Books essay on a government practice known as “channeling.” This was during the Vietnam draft era, and the term referred to the decisions that young men were forced to make about their lives [...]

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Tags: depression, panic, PeterKramer, policy, psychotherapy, treatment, Vietnam
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