Common problems

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  1. Do it while they're alive

    20/05/16

    I’d disagree with that – there’s a lot of male identity tied up in our tribal loyalties to our ... the pair of us in to trial a game that she wanted to play with her pupils, a card game designed to get ... liked a pint. Then he presented me with his empty glass. So when a mate dies, we remember them – and ... More

  2. How's your pandemic?

    18/01/21

    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. ... More

  3. Brian: 'Don't leave it too late to act on weight'

    26/07/18

    Brian is in his 60s. He has type 2 diabetes. I was diagnosed at 50. I’ve always been overweight, ... diabetes was a factor in my stroke four and a half years ago. It has certainly caused erection problems and ... I recently had an HbA1c test and my blood sugar is still highish. It’s better when I’m losing weight but ... More

  4. Covid - 19: Honest communications

    04/05/20

    communicate directly with men with clear targeted age- and gender-sensitive information. We've even had ... Covid-19 video We've also challenged the UK's creatives in the advertising industtry and ... elsewhere to come up with ways to talk to men about Covid-19: Try our creative challenge: how can we ... More

  5. Stranger Than A Talking Dog

    25/10/16

    a bloke with a woman’s disease. ‘I keep imagining what it would look like if they put it in the local rag’ ... Heyderman’s ‘Coping With Breast Cancer’ is one of the few books on the subject to discuss the condition in ... disease but men are more likely to wait before seeking treatment until the lump has broken through the ... More

  6. Men without children

    10/07/16

    involuntarily childless man. I always expected to be a dad and there have been times in my life when becoming ... a working class area of Manchester, my parents could always close down any boundary-pushing request with the ... and angst I had with my partner. In my 40s, I changed career and trained as a counsellor. It was the ... More

  7. Kevin: 'Get a health check'

    03/08/15

    Information like this helped me make changes in my lifestyle! Not only this. I was advised what type of food ... to avoid along with loads of other useful tips like to reduce my intake of both saturated fat and ... Haringey man Kevin says an NHS Health Check is easy. I'm in my early forties and to find out ... More

  8. Bob: 'How Dr Who helped me to dance'

    03/06/14

    I did. A sense of not being good enough, regardless of my achievement in life, has always been a powerful ... in the eye and said “when I was a child my life was a nightmare of sexual abuse and violence in ... often without warning and always for minor or trivial things. She once hit me round the head with ... More

  9. The stadium of hate

    04/05/16

    a two goal lead, was agony. Now in my entire life, Spurs have never been within a sniff of winning the ... – might tell us something about male emotions. What I do know is that I’m not the only fan feeling like ... winner. Not being good enough is not a crime except that, in the male psyche, it often feels like one. ... More

  10. Symptom Watch

    26/07/18

    appointment with your GP in good time. We don't currently post comments online but are always keen to ... everybody with a slight twinge in the chest rushing off to A&E but to raise awareness of possible ... Easy things to watch out for that might be the sign of something more serious. Knowing your own ... More

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