joiner

“Joan was in a sorority in high school; she was a joiner. Eve was the outcast.”

After leaving school, he spent three years working as a joiner but would still take his bike to the skatepark and practice, with a career as a professional BMX rider his true ambition.

The problem is “not new but it is overlooked — regularly overlooked,” said Thomas Joiner, a Florida State University psychologist who studies suicide and has written about the mental health of older men.

Joiner said men tend to suffer from worsening loneliness over the course of their lives in a way that differs from women, with “friendship networks falling apart over the decades.”

He’s a performer, a joiner, coming out from behind his desk as often as possible.