Medical Examiner

Depression knows how to protect itself. I learned how to stop helping it.

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Rather than go to therapy, it’s said, men would sooner do … pretty much anything: start a war, read every book about ancient Rome, develop a Polymarket addiction, become a Marvel adult.

A few points, in fairness to men:

Ancient Rome is pretty fascinating!

Good therapists can be awfully hard to find.

A lot of non-men also have this problem.

But the prevalence of this archetype almost elides the basic fact that spurning therapy is a symptom of a deeper avoidance: the denial of a need for treatment of any kind.…