Mens Mental Health Month - November

JW77
JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering
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November is Mens Mental Health Month.
I've just finished writing up an article for my local Mens Walking & Talking group.
Founded in 2021 (not by me)
It offers support to any man. Some routes are good for wheeling too, just ask.
There's also a weekly zoom for anyone to join.

I also, for my own wellbeing attend a Menoga (mens yoga) group, with a chat and cuppa afterwards.

So those are just 2 things I'm sharing for this years Mens Mental Health Month.

https://www.menwalkingandtalking.co.uk

More resources
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/men-and-mental-health

https://www.manup.how

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/your-stories/why-i-m-encouraging-men-to-take-five-for-their-mental-health/

More stuff on MIND

Comments

  • Morgan_Alumni
    Morgan_Alumni Posts: 782 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Thank you for sharing @JW77. I actually spotted my local area had started a men's walking and talking group recently, it sounds like a good, low pressure and low demand idea that could have real benefits for wellbeing and isolation.

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    That's good to know. They are more groups being created, almost weekly it seems around the country.

    For me they are, an incentive to get out and 'be with people' even if I don't always do much talking. Or sometimes to listen as well as talk. As well as the exercise.
    Usually our walks are a bit over a mile. And walking in the dark does have a certain something to it. A different kind of awareness I think.

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing

    My local pub have a men's meeting where they can talk about health, mind and just have a general wind down and natter

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,798 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    There appear to be more mens support groups popping up now, one in particular appears to be getting quite big, but the name escapes me right now. I think it's so important for men to actually talk things through, we've been conditioned to be all stoic and not talk about our feelings and that's when the issues start.

  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,116 Pioneering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/927116#Comment_927116

    It's definitely been around for hundreds of years 😁

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing

    Yeah lol

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 14,764 Championing

    there is an organisation near where I live called ManHealth and they focus on mental health

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