mental health – Plymouth Gazette

BY LUCAS VOSS Behind the scenes, work is underway in preparation for this year’s Movember, with ambassadors ready in their roles for the upcoming campaign in November 2020. Despite months until the foundations’ annual peak of awareness, the importance in the present day could not be more relevant. Social immobility across the globe has significantly changed everyone’s lives, increasing loneliness, depression and anxiety. The Guardian reported that "young men aged 18-25" mainly required admission during the pandemic. “What’s happening now is impacting us all in different ways” - Brendan Maher, Global Director of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention for Movember. On average men die nearly six years earlier than women, with poor mental health, and testicular and prostate cancer ...

BY LUCAS VOSS Image: © Lucas Voss Lifestyles have been turned upside down, and the norms of daily routines challenged. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken everyone up, despite plenty of warning signs and time to prepare for the arrival of the virus that severely struck China, Italy, Iran and Spain, as authorities hurried to set lockdown law in the respective nations. Amongst twiddling thumbs, and twenty-second long cries of “happy birthday” echoing from the SU toilets, there was a quiet unease trembling beneath the surface of the Plymouth students. As the new week commenced, it seemed we would be left lingering a little longer, so normal work proceeded. This was soon to change before the end of business that same day. All was thrown up in the air, as everyone hurried to adapt to hom...

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