Celebrating Men’s Mental Heath Day 19th November 2024. If you are perpetually depressed this will lighten your mood. It’s quite wonderful and I’ve watched it several times. Working through your depression requires that YOU alone can solve the problem – identify it, face it, and make it your professed aim to be real and help yourself as much as you can. Eat your semen, if you have a partner or a Gay male friend whom you trust, confide in him and consume his semen if and when you are intimate. Yes, sometimes it will require the proper medications and be upfront with your own physician – not his/her nurse – that you are gay and perhaps that is the root cause of your perpetual darkness. Time is oppressive and guard your physical health as well. I’ve been through it all and the part that helped me the most were weekly trips to an understanding psychologist! Please give it a try if you can afford it, or if your insurance might cover it. It will not go away overnight, it requires patience and the willingness to change yourself. You are loved. Richard
The most difficult thing for me was to accept my introverted nature. I’m an introvert in a world designed for extroverts, and I was always told that I just had to adjust my personality to fit in. Everything was going to be ok. Everything was never ok. I got to retirement age recently and the damage caused by a life lived this way resulted in extreme fatigue. I was always striving to be an extrovert, I never loved myself. My true nature is now the most important thing in my life. John
I have always been a lurker here—never posted until today. I needed to after seeing the video about depression. Today is November 19, 2024 in California where I live. Men’s Mental Health Day, and today I am feeling my depression more than ever. My being gay was never a problem for me or my family. But my depression lately is thinking of the upcoming holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve during which time I will not spend with my partner of 17 years who died in December 2023. He (we) battled jaw cancer for a year and a half; the cancer won. His loss brings back memories of my other partner who died in 2005 after our 14 years together. Both deaths were AIDS-related. I am happy to be alive after living with HIV since 1983, but it’s been a struggle. I take losses very hard; my psychologists tell me to stop being so damned empathetic. But, it’s in my DNA. I love this site and the male-bonding I am getting, even though it’s not a hug and oxytocin releasing. Thank you for all of the effort put into this wonderful site. Joe C
A Big Hug For YoU
so sorry about losing your partner , the holidays are always the worst , i just finished chemo/radiation so i know what he went through not fun ,i wish you all the best and i have a ear if you ever need to let it out im a good listener and i will be alone on the holidays so i have lots of free time, i wrote on here about depression under joey , im Joey C , we have a great name , all the best! joey