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MEDICAL CANNABIS CARD IS RIGHT FOR ME? MAJORITY OF BRITONS The Men inSUPPORT
Mental Health LEGALISATION Public health and user-driven social media campaigns have encouraged
more of us to open up about our mental health in recent years. We talk to one man who conf ronted his mental health issues with CBD. Words by Gordon Stribling.
for the office.
“
ACTIVE OVER LOCK-DOWN The Centre for Mental Health estimates that around 10 million of us will experience long term mental health problems as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Many of those will likely be men who, true to the stereotype, avoid confronting the issue and suffer in silence.
Running was the absolute key to keeping myself on a good path.
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The Pure Sport CBD virtual Run Club has helped more than 800 people stay active
Some of our favourites to boost your mood With little experience of training others, Will brought running
coach Lloyd Kempson on board. Lloyd was inspired by his own experiences in a commercial
run club environment. He found
Confronting mental health issues with CBD
Despite the barriers to discussing
the club-based system could
this taboo subject being slowly
foster a sense of elitism while the
eroded, suicide remains the
commercial world was a lot more accepting. All you need to do is get
biggest killer of men aged under
there, leave your ego at the door
45. There’s still a long way to go.
and have a good time, however
Matthew Whittaker, 29, is a project
hard you go or fast you are.
manager and founder of the
“When anyone is welcome, you gain benef its in physical, mental
MENTAL HEALTH
Aryeetey uses it, triathletes like
go to the next level while keeping
and social areas, it unlocks doors
the Brownlee Brothers, too. So, the
that spirit of inclusivity and giving
to so many parts of your life
diversity it has is insane. And to be
new runners the social experience
that you may never have come
able to sleep and recover well is
that Lloyd has found so valuable.
across before. So social health
good for anyone.”
“A lot of them may never have had
CBD_UK subreddit from Leeds. He
in a world of my own,” he says. “Then all of a sudden a wave of anxiety just hit me like a tonne of
The Run Club is bringing out
this social side of the sport before
people who haven’t run in a long
and I know how amazing it is,” he
met before. Mentally, you may
time. There are various reasons for
says. “To have that opportunity
f ind so much more conf idence in
this, Lloyd says. Some were bored
to bring it to their doorsteps is
your ability to apply yourself to an
of running, others got injured
the door.
bricks out of nowhere.” He describes the experience as
a condition. To him, it was just an
a ‘chainsaw’ of overwhelming
brain deals with thoughts as they
understandable and short-lived
negative and aggressive thoughts
come in. But eventually, that door
reaction to a stressful event. Until a
and dark subject matter. A
is going to burst open.”
few years ago.
therapist would later use an
Matthew’s natural inclination to
Produced in association with
improvement, you may meet f riends that you would have never
in the right place. You’re just shoving stuff in them and shutting
admits that, for much of life he ‘didn’t really understand’ anxiety as
“I was working like mad, juggling an app start-up, doing all this
a really exciting thing for me. I
volunteer stuff... basically just
activity that you never thought
or pushed themselves too hard
genuinely think just f rom seeing
ploughing away, doing too much
you could before. And then
and some didn’t train properly.
how quickly this has grown online
analogy to describe how he dealt with his problems. “You’re not folding things up neatly and putting them in the cupboard
“I don’t think we consciously know we’re doing it. It’s just how our
rationalise himself back to mental clarity only made things worse. Trying to think about how not to worry only perpetuated a cycle that