So you’ve heard that men just won’t go to therapy—except in the setups to old jokes. You know the ones. A sad sack walks into the shrink’s office in the seventies with a domestic problem. His wife thinks she’s a chicken, clucks all over the place. The clinician listens as the man rants, then scribbles on a pad of paper and hands him a scrip for psychiatric meds. The guy rejects it: “Doctor, haven’t you been listening? We need the eggs!”Or here’s a new one: It’s 2025, and a man is unloading on his therapist. ICE agents are snooping around his office. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is questioning the legitimacy of the antidepressant he takes. Oh, also, his wife is a federal…
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