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Help Me Help Myself Men and Mental Health

Six million men are diagnosed with depression each year in America, and they account for 79 percent of suicides in the United States. These are shocking statistics. Author Graeme Cowan provides advice for loved ones on how to encourage the men in your life to get the mental health care they need, and explains why […]

It’s Not Funny! Disordered Eating and Negative Body Image Invade the Sunday Comics

By Michelle May, MD I’m not kidding! Twenty-five percent of the comic strips in our Sunday paper two weeks ago were somehow related to negative body image, dieting, or binge eating. This is very telling and very concerning. On this particular Sunday, cartoon characters were obsessing about food, lamenting over breaking their latest diet, and […]