Beyond the Blue: A Survival Guide for the Male Labeled, and a Healthier Society for All

Does any of this sound familiar?

• Depression snarls at you like a beast
• Anxiety burns through the pit of your stomach like a fireball
• You are constantly angry and in conflict with people around you
• A ten-ton trauma drags you down

Without the right help, any one of these issues can threaten your career, your business, or your personal relationships.

What if you discovered that you already carry survival tools to help you to tackle these threats to your emotional and physical well-being?

Like blazes on a trail, this Survival Guide will guide you through the rougher paths of the journey that is your life, teaching you how to prepare for these darker days, what to do when the storm arrives, and how to survive and thrive so you do not plunge from disturbance to crisis. Within these pages, you will find advice that is based on the latest research in neuroscience, strategies from the most effective approaches to psychotherapy, and Chris Warren-Dickins’s experience as a psychotherapist.

This Survival Guide offers an alternative approach to the corner-cut logic that is labeling. When it comes to survival of depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, or trauma, labels can sometimes fail to help because we are more complex and sophisticated than that.

Chris invites us to look beyond the blue of the male label that was given to us, with an appreciation that our lived reality may differ compared with some of the assumptions associated with this label. These assumptions act as significant obstacles to adequate mental healthcare, and the reality is that there is little opportunity for adequate and accessible mental healthcare for people who have been given the male label. This was already a problem before the pandemic, and now it has become a healthcare crisis. Untreated depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, and trauma pose a risk for all of us in society.

This Survival Guide offers adequate and accessible mental healthcare so you can survive and thrive, despite depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, and trauma. If you are still in need of help beyond this book, there is advice about how to separate the good from the bad and ugly forms of professional help.

Are you ready to take your next step Beyond the Blue?

Chris Warren-Dickins is a psychotherapist, and they provide a psychotherapy service that serves people in New Jersey (USA) and the United Kingdom.  Chris loves to help all sorts of people with all sorts of problems, and they tend to work on the following areas:  Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR) (an approach commonly used for trauma), Affirmative LGBTQ+ therapy, and "Men's therapy" (in other words, how to survive the male label).