So-called “daddy issues” or “dad issues” are often linked to women who are struggling emotionally and acting out based on their relationships with their fathers. But the truth is dad issues affect everyone and even men have things they’ll need to work through to reach their full potential.
What are Dad Issues?
Saying someone has “dad issues” is a shortened way of saying there are unresolved feelings about one’s father. These issues, more formally known as Father Complex tend to create dysfunction and affect how we see ourselves.
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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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The Internet has enabled pornography addiction to not only proliferate but reach and ensnare younger boys in its trap. Boys as young as ten are being treated for pornography addiction as well as grown and famous men like Terry Crews, David Duchovny, John Mayer, Chris Rock, Charlie Sheen, Kanye West and Tiger Woods – all have admitted and/or been treated for pornography addiction. It’s an easy drift net to be caught up in and a difficult cycle to get out of in an increasingly sexualized, and wired society.
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By Rick Fortier
I lived in denial for over two decades. Then, I procrastinated for another ten years. Yeah, I’ll get around to it tomorrow, or next week. No worries, I got this.
Or, so I told myself.
It wasn’t until the life that I had created was tumbling out of control that I began to realize that I was in serious trouble.
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