Men & Mental Health Workshop for Men and Women

About this event

So following on from the Mental Health live, with Shaileen, Varsha and Manish Gohel, we will be holding a workshop to discuss Men and Mental Health.

Although titled, Men and Mental Health, this will be an event where both Men and Women are welcome.

Mental Health and Men often goes a miss, maybe because it's probably harder for Men to speak up, or when they do, they are seen as possibly weak. Well at the workshop we will be discussing how we can all work together, both Men and Women to share experiences of how useful it actually is for someone (Man or Woman) who struggles silently to speak up, reach out and get support.

• Below is some information about Men's Mental Health

• Three times as many men as women die by suicide.

• Men aged 40-49 have the highest suicide rates in the UK.

• Men report lower levels of life satisfaction than women according to the Government’s national wellbeing survey.

• Men are less likely to access psychological therapies than women: only 36% of referrals to NHS talking therapies are for men.

• Nearly three-quarters of adults who go missing are men.

• 87% of rough sleepers are men.

• Men are nearly three times as likely as women to become dependent on alcohol, and three times as likely to report frequent drug use.

• Men are more likely to be compulsorily detained (or ‘sectioned’) for treatment than women.

• Men are more likely to be victims of violent crime (1.5 more likely than women.)

• Men make up the vast majority of the prison population.​ There are high rates of mental health problems and increasing rates of self-harm in prisons.

Register here : https://apcmentalhealth.eventbrite.co.uk