Everybody’s #mentalhealth is of course important all year-round, but as November is Men’s Mental Health Month, I thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about this some more.
You’ve probably heard of #Movember and all the crazy facial hair experiments that come with it (I know I’ve been involved myself in the past!) but did you know it has funded over 1,320 projects round the world? It’s raised awareness of such diseases as prostate cancer and testicular cancer, but has also helped raise awareness of mental health issues too, one of these being suicide. Men are statistically less likely to seek help than women, and when we consider that men count for 75 per cent of suicides in the UK, that’s a truly sobering statistic.
I talk a lot in my blog posts about the importance of talking about our problems and also the importance of getting out in nature. It’s one of the reasons why I feel that walk and talk #therapy is an ideal way to experience both. It’s perhaps no coincidence that my clients when I’m working in this way tend to be male. Men can often find it easier to talk side-by-side than face to face, and walk and talk therapy is a great way to facilitate that.
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