What Keeps Me Awake
What Keeps Me Awake, Loren A Olson MDEssays sent weekly about aging, identity, and the search for meaning and connection. Personal stories about how wounds shape us and how they heal — told with compassion, psychological insight, and emotional honesty. Not answers, but the right questions.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 40 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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At the Doorknob: Almost Good Enough
We are haunted by the space between who we were meant to be and who we became.
During the final year of my psychiatry residency, a supervisor assigned us to write our own epitaph by answering a single question:
What is the worst thing t...
At the Doorknob: The Unbearable Cost of Silence
We don’t reveal ourselves when it’s easy. We do it when we’re almost out of time.
After twenty-five years, a patient waited until the last thirty seconds of her therapy to reveal that she is a lesbian.
I waited a long time, too, to accept...
At the Doorknob: What Patients Say at the Door
People in therapy say the most important things in the last thirty seconds of a session.
Throughout my fifty years of practicing psychiatry, I have seen this axiom proven over and over.
Bobo the Clown revealed her deepest secrets with he...
What Men Remember: Responses to “Where Men’s Loneliness Begins”
“Where Men’s Loneliness Begins” brought back childhood memories. Not big, dramatic events, but small ones, often unnoticed by others, when something in a boy shut down almost instantly.
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Shame and Belonging
For some...
I Lost Control of the Person I Pretended to Be
What you see when you see me is no longer mine to control. Perhaps it never was.
This is the final piece in a three-part series—about losing control, telling the truth, and what it means to finally be known.
First, I needed help managin...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
A man in the final third of life, writing about the emotional truth most men never learned how to say.
Dr. Olson is a psychiatrist, author, and popular speaker. He grew up in rural Nebraska. His life was upended when he fell in love with a man. His latest book, No More Neckties, flings open the doors on a life he once felt he needed to hide.
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