Men’s Mental Health Works as does mental health for all. Psychological wellbeing flows from a lifestyle that includes positive choices and behaviours around nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management and relationships. Psychological distress most usually manifests first in these areas of a person’s life with problems in relationships, food and appetite, sleep cycles, productivity issues at work or school, social isolation and so on.
For men, these distress signals might just be seen as business as usual in today’s world. These early warning signs often don’t get noticed either by the man himself or those around him until they reach significant crisis levels. Men will often dismiss early signs of problems as not serious enough to warrant treatment, or just as acceptable in the context of being a man.
Men’s Mental Health Works as does mental health for all. Psychological wellbeing flows from a lifestyle that includes positive choices and behaviours around nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management and relationships. Psychological distress most usually manifests first in these areas of a person’s life with problems in relationships, food and appetite, sleep cycles, productivity issues at work or school, social isolation and so on.
For men, these distress signals might just be seen as business as usual in today’s world. These early warning signs often don’t get noticed either by the man himself or those around him until they reach significant crisis levels. Men will often dismiss early signs of problems as not serious enough to warrant treatment, or just as acceptable in the context of being a man.
Men’s Mental Health Works (MMHW) is a specialised service from Mental Health Works aimed at supporting men and boys navigate the world; their health, wellbeing and masculinity. Men’s Mental Health Works starts from embracing positive health and wellbeing as the outcome of mental health and wellbeing work.
Wellness is not the absence of illness but the embracing of a full life maximising health and wellbeing on a daily basis. MMHW uses evidence based approaches from a broad range of disciplines; psychotherapy, health coaching, health and medical support, fitness, lifestyle coaching, relationship support and psychological eduction to name a few helping men, boys, fathers and sons become the best versions of themselves.
We have a team of experts looking at a broad range of health and wellbeing issues specific to men and boys as masculinity is seen to be increasingly hijacked by extremist attitudes towards women and society. Men make up over 95% of the prison population and over 87% of those men have two or more diagnosed mental illnesses.
Men face the highest rates of violent crime both as victims and perpetrators. Many have significant undiagnosed trauma from this. There is a sense of crisis in masculinity and many young men feel disconnected from their fathers who they feel have not equipped them to exist in today’s society and can turn to simplistic and often extreme solutions online. There are too few spaces that can celebrate being a man and becoming and being masculine.
Noel our CEO and Founder started working with men specifically at the beginning of his clinical career in Edinburgh over 30 years ago supporting new fathers. He has maintained his expertise and interest in this area and brought an expert team together to support men and boys.
Noel is realistic about the issues having worked with offender men and has specialists in the team working with anger and abuse issues as well as trauma. The work is non collusive with attitudes or behaviours that victimise others and men who do harm are expected to take responsibility for that and change and offer reparation.
