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Paul Drugan

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Paul Drugan is a Chicago-based memoirist and men’s mental health advocate who writes about the long-term impact of childhood trauma, emotional repression, and the quiet cost of silence.

Drawing on lived experience, Paul explores how unaddressed trauma—particularly in men raised to suppress vulnerability—shapes identity, relationships, addiction, and self-worth. His work examines the ways shame becomes inherited, normalized, and internalized, and how awareness, acceptance, and action can interrupt those cycles.

Rooted in Chicago—a city defined by toughness, grit, and reinvention—Paul brings emotional honesty and psychological clarity to stories often left unspoken, especially those surrounding men’s pain, silence, and survival. His writing cha ...more

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“Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook; it's about taking the hook out of yourself.”
― Paul Drugan, Forgiving Dr. Jekyll: From Hyde to Healing: A Memoir

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“Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook; it's about taking the hook out of yourself.”
― Paul Drugan, Forgiving Dr. Jekyll: From Hyde to Healing: A Memoir

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