keep on the edge (blog)

You’ve probably heard the advice framed as a choice: either stay close to your struggling son and risk enabling him, or step away and practice “detaching with love…

Over the next three months, Antedote is hosting a written dialogue between two people who sit on different sides of the same fire. I’m writing as a treatment professional in mental health and…

Something troubling is happening to young men today. Many remain tethered to their parents well into adulthood, not only financially but emotionally…

Let’s start with a jarring truth: young adults—not teens—are currently the most psychologically distressed age group in America…

Let’s not sugarcoat it: Our young adults are stunted—arrested in their development—not because they lack potential, but because the people raising them often lack…

Travis gets home late in his parents’ range rover puffing the roach of a blunt. He flicks it out the window where it sizzles on the street in a puddle of run off from the midnight sprinkler…