ALL MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT - men are no different!

The problem is for years that men have been overlooked as they tend to talk about mental healh less than women so people assumed their silence meant they were fine rather than that they didn't know how to communicate their feelings.

Well it isn't ONLY for men but we made the lighten the load and the dump it out notepad for mens health month aimed to help men communicate. The reason they're different is that they are more simplistic to identify emotions with tick boxes rather than needing to find and express deep emotions. Being able to look at a list of emotions and physical symptoms can be easier to identify and be less of an emotional drain.

Brain scans on volunteers showed that putting feelings down on paper reduces activity in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which is responsible for controlling the intensity of our emotions.

Psychologists who discovered the "Bridget Jones effect" said it worked whether people elaborated on their feelings in a diary, penned lines of poetry, or even jotted down song lyrics to express their negative emotions.

-The Guardian