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  • Men’s Health Week 2025

    Men’s health week 2025 poster

    Great resources available at :

    https://www.mhfi.org/mhw/mhw-2025.html

    International Men’s Health Week (MHW) always begins on the Monday before Father’s Day and ends on Father’s Day itself.  During 2025, it will run from Monday 9th until Sunday 15th June.

    MHW is celebrated in many European countries, as well as in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a number of other places worldwide.  The overall aims of the week are to:

    • –  Heighten awareness of preventable health problems for males of all ages.
    • –  Support men and boys to engage in healthier lifestyle choices / activities.
    • –  Encourage the early detection and treatment of health difficulties in males.

    But why is there a need to hold a Men’s Health Week? …  Males constitute almost 50% of the population on the island of Ireland and, therefore, deserve to have a gender lens focused upon their specific health needs.  Research clearly shows that these men experience a disproportionate burden of ill-health and die too young …

    • –  Local men die younger than women do.
    • –  Males have higher death rates than females for almost all of the leading causes of death and at all ages.
    • –  Men’s poorer lifestyles are responsible for a high proportion of chronic diseases.
    • –  Late presentation to health services can lead to a large number of problems becoming untreatable …

    Indeed, while many of these conditions are preventable, their prevalence amongst men may, in fact, rise in the future.

    Talk to someone and do it now.

    David McAllister BSc(Hons),Dip App S.S.,ADCHP, MCHPA
    Phone: 085 843 5939
    Email: anxietyclinic@dublin.com

  • Men’s Health Week. Do you know your numbers?

    Men’s health week know your numbers

    Delighted to support men’s health week know your numbers campaign

    Get all the information you need at http://www.MHFI.org

  • A to Z of phobias (Y is a new one to me! )

    I was recently asked if there is a phobia for everything. There’s certainly potential for this to be true and over the next few months I’m going to focus attention on specific phobias. So just to get started, here is an A to Z of phobias some of which you may be more familiar with than others. I have certainly not come across “Y” yet but there again who has?

    A – Acrophobia – Fear of heights.
    B – Bibliophobia: Fear of books or reading.
    C – Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns.
    D – Dentophobia: Fear of dentists or dental procedures.
    E – Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting.
    F – Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders.
    G – Glossophobia: Fear of public speaking.
    H – Hydrophobia: Fear of water.
    I – Ichthyophobia: Fear of fish.
    J- jangelaphobia – fear of jelly.
    K – Katsaridaphobia: Fear of cockroaches.
    L – Lepidopterophobia: Fear of butterflies or moths.
    M – Mysophobia: Fear of germs or dirt.
    N – Nyctophobia: Fear of darkness or night.
    O – Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes.
    P- Pogonophobia :Fear of beards
    Q – Quadraphobia:fear of the number four
    R – Trypanophobia: Fear of needles or injections.
    S – Scopophobia: Fear of being stared at or watched.
    T – Thanatophobia: Fear of death or dying.
    U – Uranophobia: Fear of heaven.
    V – Venustraphobia: Fear of beautiful women.
    W – Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
    X – Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners.
    Y – Yokai-phobia: Fear of Japanese supernatural creatures.
    Z – Zoophobia: Fear of animals.

  • Fast Fix Fears and Phobias Workshop

    Fast Fix Fears and phobias workshop

    A big thank you to CHI Temple Street for facilitating my Fast Fix Fears and Phobias workshop today. Super condensed version but still produced great results. I really want to congratulate the participants for taking the brave step to face their fears/ phobias and for the effort they put in today. Wishing them all well on continuing the progress they made today.

  • 5 ways hypnosis can help people with autism to cope better with challenges

    Always interesting to work with and learn from ASD clients. This article below will give you an insight into five ways how hypnosis can help. Well worth a read.

    — Read on www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/understanding-hypnosis/202209/hypnosis-the-treatment-autism

  • The more you give the more you get

    Altruistic August

    Whether you believe in the concept of altruism or laws of attraction or even if you don’t well there is no harm in trying. So this August why not follow the daily suggestions as outlined above on the calendar and you might just surprise yourself how different you feel.

    You have nothing to lose and all to gain. So start today by consciously focusing on being kind to both yourself and others.

    Enjoy yourself it’s later than you think…

  • You don’t have to be Charles Dickens to make a difference.

    Dickens was of course a great story teller and he drew from his life experiences, everything that went on around him. But he was also a social reformer, challenging the authorities to review and change the circumstances of the poor and working classes.

    He lived in a time of great industrial and social upheaval, the heady days of Victorian Britain, a place of both wealth and poverty

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

    Therefore he not only put his thoughts down in words, he also took action with a sense of purpose. We can all do this, don’t doubt yourself, you like me can help another person.

    So don’t wait for the best of times to get started , lighten the burden today.

  • You don’t have to be Charles Dickens to make a difference.

    Dickens was of course a great story teller and he drew from his life experiences, everything that went on around him. But he was also a social reformer, challenging the authorities to review and change the circumstances of the poor and working classes.

    He lived in a time of great industrial and social upheaval, the heady days of Victorian Britain, a place of both wealth and poverty

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

    Therefore he not only put his thoughts down in words, he also took action with a sense of purpose. We can all do this, don’t doubt yourself, you like me can help another person.

    So don’t wait for the best of times to get started , lighten the burden today.