Here at The Men’s List we’re striving to be one of the trusted destinations for men looking for help and the therapists and mental health professionals who offer it. With that in mind, we’re kicking off a new feature to the site where we select 5 books that we feel can really make a great impact on anyone’s life—especially a man looking to better himself, get focused on his mental health, and live a balanced, healthier life. The books we’ve selected this week can act as a roadmap to better living in all ways. We applaud the experts who wrote these guides and give our highest recommendations to anyone interested in reading them.
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Men And BiPolar Disorder: Champion Frank Bruno On Being A Grandfather And Living With BiPolar Disorder
For years, professional boxer, and former WBC Heavyweight champion Frank Bruno battled bipolar disordered without fully understanding what was happening to him. He was sectioned (the British term that describes in the United States what is known as being committed) under the Mental Health Act several times and was prescribed a variety of different medications.
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Clarke Carlisle is Looking forward to the Future after His Darkest Days of Depression
Former soccer player Clark Carlisle has spoken openly since his career ended about his battle with depression. He claims the dark place he was in led him to a drunk driving conviction and a suicide attempt.
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UK boxer Ricky Hatton recently opened up about his battle with depression and how mental illness nearly drove him to suicide on more than one occasion. According to Hatton, during the darkest moments of his disease, he’d go drinking and return home to sit in the dark holding a knife and crying.
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After years of controversy and near-tragedies, NBA champion Lamar Odom shared something that he had been struggling with for his entire adult life: he’s a sex addict.
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US Hall of Fame goalie Tim Thomas chose his induction ceremony to share his battle with brain damage caused by injuries he sustained playing hockey. He’d been reluctant to talk about his issues until then and had a difficult time even understanding what had happened to him.
Speaking about his concussions and the problems they caused in a recent piece for the Associated Press, he said, “I couldn’t believe it because I couldn’t function well enough to understand it.”
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NBA Star Kevin Love And Overcoming Depression And Anxiety
Anyone can develop depression, but when that person is a celebrity he often chooses to share the battle publicly in hopes of helping other people. Kevin Love, five-time All-Star and NBA championship member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is a great example of this. Love’s experience with depression affected him for the first nine years of his NBA career and it wasn’t until a panic attack that drove him to therapy that he realized he was dealing with a mental illness.
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How the Rock Beat Depression (and How You Can, Too)
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is considered one of the toughest men in Hollywood. He gained fame wrestling in the WWE and has spent the last decade of his career playing action heroes that are recognized for their strength and determination.
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There is no denying that Ron Ellis is one of the greatest Toronto Maple Leafs to ever don the uniform.
The stats speak for themselves: a four-time NHL all-star with one Stanley Cup to his credit; one of five players to clock in more than 1000 games with the team; their number four all-time scorer with 332 goals; 11th in assists with 640; 6th in points with 640, a member of the 1972 Summit Series national team against Russia and on the roster of the Canadian team for the 1977 Ice Hockey World Championships.
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By Nick Krewen
Hugh Dillon was once imprisoned by his vices.
Labelling himself a “garden variety alcoholic/addict,” you can hear every ounce of pain, anguish and experience that the darker side of life afforded him on PeopleSkills, the relentless new rock album by Headstones, of which Dillon is the singer and lyricist.
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