Check in, before they check out


It’s time we shake up the way we deal with mental health in male dominated spaces.


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or too long, men have been more than happy to sit behind a mask and keep a brave face.


This mentality has seen us lose more people than we wish to talk about to their own battles with mental health, to the point that they saw no other option than to leave us prematurely.


With this attitude, we have created a level of masculinity that has become toxic, and even when other genders work within our dominated space, they are expected to play by our rules to gain acceptance or risk becoming outsiders in their own workplace.


Tough Enough To Care is a mental health charity that I set up after losing two close friends to suicide within days of each other. Both friends, like myself, are products of male-dominated spaces and sadly, help was not available when they needed it most.


This is why Tough Enough To Care are passionate to shake up the way mental health is viewed and discussed in male-dominated spaces. It took me losing two friends to suicide for me to realise that I was part of the problem and not the solution…


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