012 Why men struggle with mental health

<h1><strong>How to Build Mental Strength</strong></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s November now - and for certain men, certain groups and organisations that means one thing (among many) - MOvember.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which really brings to the conversation the idea of men growing moustaches in support of men’s health; more specifically testicular cancer, prostate cancer and suicide in men.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, Movember isn’t the only charity or organisation dealing with men’s mental health, in fact, I am a board member of one called The MENtour. Our mission is very much about raising men’s emotional literacy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that’s ultimately what I wanted to (and did) cover in this episode:</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What is men’s mental health and why do we struggle with it so much?</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s the big glaring statistic on this issue: roughly 75% of all suicides are men. In Australia is essentially 6 a day out of 8 across the nation. And these stats generally carry over in the majority of the western world.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We can look at solutions to dealing with the risk, we have countless awareness campaigns - growing moustaches being a very obvious and highly effective one - and we have more and more, what I call, crisis point options and organisations dealing with men at the brink.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But this like so many aspects of being a man, is reactive - it’s waiting until the shit has hit the fan and trying to clean it up, instead of preventing the shit from getting in the vicinity of the fan, to begin with.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s what we cover in this podcast - how men can be proactive with their mental and emotional wellbeing - how they can</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">build</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">em