By Milly Feliz, Registered Psychotherapist, The Wise Self Psychotherapy Clinic, Etobicoke It's 7:40 on a Tuesday morning, and your child is in the bathroom with the door locked, saying their stomach hurts again. You know it's not their stomach. It started after what happened at school. The kid who used to bolt out the door now finds a reason to stay home every few days. The teenager who used to talk now gives you one word and a closed door. A loud noise makes them flinch. A b

You open social media for a few minutes, then close the app feeling tense, discouraged, or emotionally drained. Someone else seems more successful, more confident, more settled. Even when you know what you’re seeing is curated, it can still affect how you feel about yourself and your life. If this happens often, it may be more than a simple comparison. Social media can sometimes activate deeper feelings connected to self-worth, belonging, perfectionism, or emotional overwhelm

Most people picture depression as someone who cannot get out of bed. Someone visibly sad. Someone falling apart in a way you can see from across the room. That picture leaves a lot of men out. For many men, depression does not look like falling apart. It looks like keeping it all together a little too tightly. It looks like a shorter temper than usual. A second drink that used to be just one. A weekend spent half-asleep on the couch, half-scrolling, fully checked out. It look