As adults though, bullying can be substantially different than dealing with a kid on the playground taunting us or making fun of our shoes. Adult bullying can have profound impacts on our mental health, especially if it’s from a loved one or someone we believed we could trust. I think many of us look at bullying like I described above but obviously it’s much, much different as an adult because our interactions with others are quite a bit different than as a kid. How bullying manifests itself in adulthood can look many different ways, especially with the advent of social media and cyberbullying.

As men, how do we get ourselves to a place that allows us to fully admit we need help? Many times us guys struggle to realize our own emotions. Some of us have been programmed to eat our emotions because they don’t matter, some of us have been programmed to show only one emotion, typically anger and still others don’t even know that we have emotions.

The death of a parent is one of the hardest things we deal with in life. This is my story and things I’ve done to cope with the loss of my parents.