BeatStress.uk: our new service

Stress-busting by text chat and email to launch in Men's Health Week 2016

Do you get stressed? No worries. We all do. The question is: what do you do about it?

This matters because if we don’t release stress, it can turn into something more serious. This year, one in four of us will develop a mental health problem. That is odds of 3-1. In other words, it’s likely to happen sooner or later if you let stress build.

There are many things you can do to beat stress: exercise, sing, dance, laugh, play or listen to music, paint, write, volunteer, learn something new and lots more.

But there is one thing we can all do.

Talk about it.

Talk about how you’re feeling and about what you do about it.

Using the Men’s Health Forum’s new beatstress.uk service you can email or text chat free with experts trained in beating stress.

No names, no hassle.
From mobile, tablet or computer.

Beat Stress text chat is open soon. At all other times you will be able to send an email.

Easy, stress-free stress-busting.

This link leads to the service:

beatstress.uk

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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