Britain’s first ever “men’s health pub” opens in South London to support male mental health and wellbeing in the city

by BulkyAccident

22 comments

  2. Sounds interesting and I’d give it a look if pints are decently priced, but reading the article…. I’m not sure how excited I’d be about a health-related pub quiz, or learning about cardiovascular health while shovelling down a 3000-calorie Sunday lunch, honestly.

  4. Why don’t skip all these steps and tax millionaires and fund programs that help kids and adults. The geezers are fine.

  5. Very stupid.

    Edit – oh wow, after a bit more reading, they’re a pharmaceutical company.

    Using ‘mens health’ to market your pub, hormones and dick pills is honestly kinda icky.

  6. Yeah nothing improves mental and physical health like frequent alcohol consumption 🙃

  7. In 2015 when data was looked at, 200,000 people a year were checking in with mental health disorders caused by alcohol. A mental health pub is like a vegan abattoir.

    Would you hold a gamblers anonymous meeting at a casino?

    You would if you wanted to improve takings.

  8. the documentary screening next Wed looks good, might go to that

  9. Sounds like the landlord is going on two weeks holiday and instead of getting the usual relief managers in. Has gotten in some company to create bit of a buzz and sell some nutritional supplements and lectures or what ever they’re flogging.

    I’m not really sure that I want to be reminded in tbe pub that you’re now only supposed to have 14 units per week, which is 7 pints of standard lager. Particularly when I’m popping out to the beer garden for a smoke.

  11. Part of me doesn’t like this.while satisfying and validating being heard can be, for some mental illness talking (without action) can exacerbate it. There are so many exogenous/endogenous factors behind the worried well end of mental illness (opposed to the psychosis and life limiting end) that an occasional chitchat is less than a sticking plaster. The real cure is harder, more expensive, often involves complete life overhaul and many relapses and in many cases even that doesn’t work.

    For some who are depressed, interoception and going over their problems is the last thing yhey need. These people shouldnt meditate either.

    I do take this seriouslt btw as someine who has been in a mental hospital when younger and am now better and have been for 20+ years and who lost my dad to suicide

  12. I’d don’t per se mind the notion of this. And these guys are doing more than I am at the moment to combat a real problem. But these things are always the most neutered forms of masculinity. The range of acceptable masculinity in popular culture is so constrained now that it’s hard to see other options.

  13. obviously I commend everyone involved in this for doing what they can and being there for each other. lovely, good, important work etc.

    but goddamn it, mental health is a political crisis in the same vein as inequality and deprivation etc. and I’m sick to the gills of individuals having to cobble together solutions with goodwill and sticky tape.

    SMI aside, (different beast entirely) so much of this could be addressed far more effectively through political will – you are not maladjusted for being depressed in a world openly governed by billionaires, it’s not surprising you starve yourself in a world besieged by marketing and impossible images, your anxiety makes a fuckload of sense when the pot is literally boiling over and the frog kings are building secret bunkers while rattling nuclear sabers…

    I probably need to go to the pub, lol

  15. I heard they’ve got a wax work of zoella and some other wicked youtubers

  16. A place you go to drink copious amounts of alcohol being designated for mental health… makes perfect sense.

  17. How to cure mens mental health

    1) Two 2quid off the price of a pint

    2) stick the footy on

    It isnt Rocket Surgery, end of.

  18. There’s some pretty egregious use of copy in that article.

    > The Brothers’ Arms will **purportedly** be Britain’s first men’s health pub.

    > But, why are they even opening a men’s health pub? In the words of **Androlabs**, the team behind the **activation**:

    And at no point does it say it’s a fucking advert for a drugs company.

  20. OK but the logo is a bit weird. I’m not understanding the symbolism of grabbing someone else’s forearm.

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