Monthly health awareness for men
November is the month of awareness of the mental health of men.
As is commonly reported, men are experiencing disproportionately high suicide rates, suicide death being the largest killer of men under the age of 50 in the United Kingdom. For this reason, Phil Cookson, our 44-year-old male director, wanted to share his experience with his own mental health and some of the adaptation mechanisms he used … Read his story below …
A little over 5 years ago, I lost my wife Kate because of cancer. It was a massive shock because for several months, we were told that she would beat him, only 2 days before her death, we said that she was not going to survive. My grief was amplified by a shock similar to losing someone to a sudden accident. Less than 5 months later, I lost my mother because of cancer, two hammer blows in a short period of time.
Over the past 5 years, my mental health has crossed ups and downs. I compare to being in a small boat on the ocean – sometimes, the waves got closer to match, so I understand how close I have been, but over time, I learned to find quieter waters with my boat and there are a certain number of adaptation mechanisms that I found useful, but here is my top 4 –
Talk about it – I was very expressed on my mental health, both in line and in person, the current greeting of “how are you often” led me to say “not very well / in difficulty”, and you would be surprised by the frequency to which it then leads to a really healthy and honest conversation of the two parts.
Let emotion – I have always tried not to bottle my emotions, ranging from crying in the car on the way to work to shout and cry out when it is in the middle of nowhere during a dog walk. Let my emotions surface rather than be repressed.
Listen to my body and my mind – If I want to exercise, I will do it, but if I want to place to take away, I will go with that, or I curl up on the sofa with a book – I will listen to what my body and my mind tell me that it needs. I don’t fight for the choices I make.
Say yes to everything – I decided early that I did not want to become a hermit, it would have been very easy to do so. To say yes to everything is as simple as it may seem, if I am asked to do something professional or personally, I say yes and it has led to good times, but I stay or I get involved until I feel the opposite, see my body or my mind above – if I want to go home after 2 glasses, I go home.
I also want to report certain resources for anyone in trouble.
Andy’s Man Club
Spirit
Shout
Calm
And if a man wants to speak, my DMs are always open.
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