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Reasons to stay alive (2015)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2015The easiest place to start, and a book worth passing on to a friend who is struggling. Matt Haig describes the depression and anxiety that floored him at 24 without dressing it up, then shows the slow, unglamorous climb back out.
It comes in short chapters and lists, so it suits a reader whose…0 - 2
Man Down (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Matt Rudd, 2020: Why Men Are Unhappy and What We Can Do About It
A journalist's look at why so many men hit midlife feeling flat, traced back through childhood, school and work, and built from his own life and the stories of the men he interviewed. It is often funny, which makes the hard parts…0 - 3
Man Down (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Charlie Hoare, 2020: A Guide for Men on Mental Health
Not to be confused with Matt Rudd's book of the same name. This one is the practical toolkit: about 140 pages of plain guidance on anxiety, depression, stress and suicidal thoughts, written by a man who went through them and then trained in…0 - 4
I don't want to talk about it (1997)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1997Family therapist Terrence Real's 1997 book argues that many men live with a hidden, long-running depression they may not recognize in themselves, one that quietly constricts and undermines their relationships.
That idea is why it still matters nearly 30 years on. If the man in your life would…0 - 5
Man Up (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016Jack Urwin, 2016: Surviving Modern Masculinity
Urwin's father died when Jack was a boy, and nobody around him ever sat him down to talk through his grief. That silence, and the breakdown he went through in his later teens, drive this sharp, readable look at why men are taught to keep quiet and…0 - 6
Coming Back To Me (2008)Published Jan 1, 2008For the sports fan who would never pick up a self-help book. The England opening batsman explains how anxiety and depression on overseas tours ended his international career, and he does it in the voice of a dressing room, not a clinic.
It won the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year, with…0 - 7
Thinking Out Loud (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017Rio Ferdinand, 2017: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad
When his wife Rebecca died of cancer at 34 in 2015, the former England captain was left raising their three children alone. This memoir walks through their marriage, his grief and the family's attempts to rebuild, from a man used to being the…0 - 8
The Stranger on the Bridge (2018)Published Jan 1, 2018In 2008 Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge in London intending to end his life, until a passing stranger stopped and talked him down. Six years later a campaign to find and thank that man went viral and tracked him down: Neil Laybourn, who contributes to the book.
It is about how Jonny…0 - 9
Brew & Chat (podcast)The Andy's Man Club podcast, and the gentlest way to hear what goes on in one of its Monday groups before you go. Each episode is a guest talking over a cup of tea about life, mental health and what they have been through, inspired by the conversations that happen in the charity's groups every…0 - 10
The ManKind PodcastFrom the ManKind Project USA, hosts Brandon Clift and Boysen Hodgson spend each episode on what being a man actually looks like now, with humor and without telling anyone who to be. Five years and more than 240 episodes in, the back catalog covers loneliness, grief, fatherhood, how to talk about…0