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We are no longer updating our Covid-19 hub regularly. That includes this page. Click here for the latest.
How's your pandemic?
If things aren't right inside your head, it usually catches up with you in the end. But in the current situation created by covid-19 where we're at home far more and social distancing as much as possible, the time we spend alone with ourselves inside our heads is doubly important.
Stress and anxiety is normal, especially in uncertain times. It's what we do about it that matters.
3 to 1
If you're not feeling great, you're not alone. One in four people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year. If you're a betting man, that's a 3 to 1 shot. Odds on, it will be higher in 2020.
But that doesn't mean it's easy to talk about it. We all know it isn't - including the men talking on this website. It can be difficult to put how you're feeling into words. This section of the Men's Health Forum site is designed to help you do that. You can be strong without being silent. In fact, strength is often to be found in talking. Without words, too much stress can kill. Three-quarters of suicides (75%) are male.
- Check out our Staying At Home FAQs
- Get the booklet: Beat Stress, Feel Better
And follow the links below for the main sections.
- Addiction
- Anger: how to take a time-out
- Anxiety
- Dementia
- Depression
- Domestic Violence
- Five Ways To Wellbeing
- Mid-life Crisis
- Mindfulness
- Suicide
- Self-harm
- Self-image
- Stress warning signs
- Abuse in childhood
Check out our beat stress video
Date published
26/03/14
Date of last review
18/05/20
Date of next review
18/05/23
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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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