Mental Health - Widower Experience (WX)

International Men's Day (IMD) is a global event celebrated on November 19th each year. It is a day dedicated to highlighting the positive contributions that men make / can make to society, as well as raising awareness of the issues that men face. The theme of IMD varies from year to year, but it generally focuses on promoting gender equality, improving men's health, and celebrating positive male role models. The 2024 theme for International Men's Day is "Men's Health Champions." It aligns with one of the six main goals of International Men's Day, which is to improve the health of men and boys. The "Men's Health Champions" theme aims to address this objective, emphasizing the importance of promoting positive male role models in the context of health and well-being. At the core of International Men's Day is the recognition of the social challenges that men and boys confront.  The 2024 IMD theme, "Men’s Health Champions," will cast...

The International Women's Day is a global day to recognize and celebrate women’s and girls’ social, economic, cultural, and political achievements and power. It’s also a time to raise awareness of the progress made towards achieving gender equality and the work remaining to be done. The beginnings of International Women's Day  The beginnings of International Women's Day can be traced back to the early twentieth century. It emerged from the activities of labour movements in North America and Europe and reflected a growing call for women’s equal participation in society. International Women's Day first took place on March 19, 1911, in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. That day, over a million women and men attended public events to show their support. Other countries began to observe and celebrate this day in the years that followed. The United Nations recognized 1975 as International Women's Year and began celebrating March 8 as International Women's Da...

I wrote a number of articles about awareness, emotions, feelings . Even we talk about these aspects a little bit more - in our society, people are rarely taught how to express their feelings and so it can be very difficult to know where or how to start. In fact, if you're like most men, and I am not only talking about these masculine men - we are still i a society where men will find it difficult to even notice how they are even feeling, like how their boss' mood can affect them, or how the stress of tight schedules can affect them. And when someone asks how they are doing, they're so disconnected from their own emotions that they fall back on the usual "I'm doing fine" making it harder for anyone to offer any support. However, ignoring feelings will not make them go away. The more we ignore our feelings, the bigger they become. I have often seen men appear  sane, healthy, and calm before bursting out in a burst of anger or aggression when something bad happen...