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How to open up about mental health

WEB4. Seek to understand your psyche. There are so many different ways to calm or understand your psyche; whether that be therapy, books, meditation, podcasts, writing, or exercise. Some great books which have transformed my way of thinking are Matt Haig’s and The Four Agreements written by Don Miguel Ruiz.

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Young Men: How To Talk To Them About Mental Health

WEBIf mental health feels like an all-too-often discussed topic, you may well be right, but that’s because it needs to be. The public dialogue around young men and mental health has taken leaps forward in recent years, with public figures such as Tyson Fury, Alastair Campbell and Prince Harry openly talking about their mental health struggles. However, …

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Why I Am Saying It's Time To Talk The Book of Man

WEBAlex Holmes, the extraordinary author, podcast host and inspirational mental health advocate, explains why he was moved to create change and why it is indeed Time To Talk. In May of 2020, George Floyd was killed in Minnesota. His death, amidst the pandemic, caused the world to notice what it means to be a Black man in the West.

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How to rebuild yourself after traumatic events The Book of Man

WEBDr Chloe Mitchell-Paidoussis on how men can learn to cope with traumatic events like serious injury, and begin to rebuild themselves and their lives. When a traumatic event strikes the psychological and physical injuries shatter your sense of who you are, how you are and what your place in the world is. This is a deeply disorientating process

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Black men's mental health and taboos The Book of Man

WEBHip Hop The Hip Hop scene as a whole has become more open to discussion around mental health, especially with the rise of emo rap; a subgenre fusing trap and hip-hop style beats with the dark confessional lyrics often heard in emo music.New gen artists such as late rapper Lil Peep, XXXTentacion, Trippie Redd and Lil Uzi Vert, who received a …

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JAAQ: Men's Mental Health Innovation of the Year

WEBJAAQ (or ‘Just Ask A Question’) was a hugely popular choice when it came to people nominating suggestions for the Innovation award. The super-slick site which features experts and famous faces answering mental health questions as if ‘live’, was an immediate hit and garnered a lot of press coverage for the way that it created an easy format for …

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Can swimming help anxiety; advice and support for mental health

WEBInitially, the swims helped to ameliorate my anxiety and I began to feel less stressed, capable of living my day to day life without being worried all of the time. I spent a year trailing Deakin before my anxiety flared up again following a bike accident which left my arm in plaster, meaning I was unable to swim.

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An interview with Dizraeli about mental struggle The Book of Man

WEBA quick questionnaire with rapper & activist Dizraeli before his appearance at our Workshop for Better Mental Health this Sunday. Dizraeli may be our favourite interviewee of the year, and has certainly put out a couple of our favourite tracks – we are therefore delighted that he’s going to be appearing at our Workshop for Better Mental

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The Man Box and how to blow the lid off it The Book of Man

WEBEquimundo is an organisation doing important work around the world to promote gender equality and prevent violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women and girls. They run training programs, campaigns and advocacy efforts to battle rape culture, and publish important studies on men and masculinity, including The Man Box report …

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Mental Health Clubs for Men

WEBThe theme for Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 is loneliness, with the Mental Health Foundation saying 1 in 4 adults feel lonely some or all of the time. Loneliness is also one of the key issues when it comes to suicide, particularly male suicide; men keeping their problems to themselves and seeking isolation is life-threatening.

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Sacha Dhawan on The Great, and battling mental health

WEBSacha, one of the stars of the unbelievably good new C4 show, The Great, talks to us about that and why he's campaigning for greater understanding of mental health struggles and the power of reaching out. The Great is shaping up to be the hit show of the New Year – just the ribald, carefree and hilarious antidote to the privations we’re

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Birdsong and your mental health The Book of Man

WEBTwitter is mostly comprised of people complaining to @Ocado about its ‘unacceptable delivery practices‘. But the other stuff – the racism, the bullying, the smug photos – can seriously affect our mental health.. According to the Royal Society of Public Health, Twitter can drive feelings of inadequacy, trigger anxiety and depression, and even disrupt our …

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a powerful new film about mental health

WEBBROTHERS is a story of friendship, betrayal and the fragility of mental health, inspired by the real life experiences of Michael Workeye and his relationship with his older brother and his mental health issues. Monfaradi commented: “ Hearing Michael’s story and the struggles he has had with his older brother’s mental health issues over

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Kurt Cobain's mental health was grist to the mill of fame

WEBKurt Cobain was an addict with many serious mental health problems.Often, rock n roll stars are lionised and idealised for their self-destruction, existing as both sacrificial lambs to the gods of excess, and cautionary tales; the sight of them, the dangerous glamour of them is tied up in fantasy, envy, hostility, prurience, rubber-necking, and a quasi-religious …

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Mental Health for Entrepreneurs The Book of Man

WEBGuy Tolhurst, leader of a new mental health initiative for businesses, on the mental and emotional toll entrepreneurship can have, and why we need a rethink on investor support. Guy Tolhurst was an entrepreneur who was in denial about his mental health issues when he attended a peer networking event one of his friends was running.

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Numan: Changing Thinking Around Men's Health The Book of Man

WEBNuman are a new breed of company in the men’s health arena; direct, sensitive, and committed to making a difference. Ostensibly launching a couple of years ago into the erectile dysfunction treatment market, they have expanded to areas such as baldness and premature ejaculation in order to tackle a range of anxieties affecting the modern man.

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Masculinity TED Talks

WEBA call to men by Tony Porter. Porter talks about growing up in New York and the tough world he was socialised in. One which, with its rules of toughness, dominance and superiority to women should be familiar to most men – Tony identifies the behavioural expectations as the ‘Man Box’.And boy does he deliver this in a deeply resonant way as …

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