Living with chronic pain or fatigue can make every day feel challenging. For some people, these issues ebb and flow. Sometimes, you’re able to attend social gatherings, keep up with your responsibilities at work, and practice your hobbies. Other days, your symptoms are so severe that you can barely get out of bed.
Today, millions of men are struggling with their mental health. Perhaps you’ve dealt with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or another mental health condition. Yet you’ve never opened up to anyone about it.
Countless people who work in “helping” professions feel like they have been pushed to the brink. Burnout is particularly common among people in the medical field, such as doctors, nurses, therapists, and other healthcare workers.
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Perhaps you’ve always struggled to fit in with others, especially in large groups. You can’t figure out why you sometimes feel so different from your friends.
For many people, trauma and chronic illnesses seem to go hand in hand. Fighting for a diagnosis and undergoing painful surgeries or treatments for a chronic illness can be traumatic.
Living with a chronic illness can be challenging. Having the support of your spouse can make things easier at times. Yet it also introduces new problems.
Perhaps you’ve been struggling with your mental health. You’ve noticed that your symptoms seem eerily familiar. Maybe your mother, father, or other relatives dealt with similar symptoms when you were growing up. But you didn’t realize that these behaviors were indicative of a mental health condition.
Maybe you’ve been suffering from a chronic illness for some time now. You can’t help but notice that your symptoms began shortly after you survived a traumatic event.
Many people assume that you should only turn to a therapist when things are going poorly. It’s easy to think that therapy is for people who are struggling with mental health conditions or dealing with difficult situations, like grieving the loss of a loved one or recovering from trauma.