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Pain, discomfort and making a difference

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Graeme

I am 5 – vulnerability in the workplace

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Graeme

Its 5 years (23rd June) since I suffered a heart-attack. Described on my medical records as a ‘significant episode followed by a series of major complications’ over a 4 hour period my heart had to be restarted 3 times. My wife was told that…

Category: UncategorizedTags: authenticity, culture, emotions, male, men, PTSD, society, toxicmasculinity, vulnerability

For Johnny and Jack

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Graeme

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The following is a speech that I proudly presented on Anzac Day, 2017. It is a message that should be shared. Soldier, soldier At the outbreak of World War 2, Great Britain was still treating 120,000 World War 1 veterans for mental illness. The casualty…

Category: UncategorizedTags: ANZAC, emotions, male, men, PTSD, soldier, suicide, vulnerability, war

In 1991 I was called to the Ministry of Health. They wanted to brief me on a piece of work to do with the National Cervical Screening Campaign, about to be launched in New Zealand for the first time.

In a startling revelation, the woman with whom I was meeting for the first time, said “we know that more men die each year from prostate cancer than women die from cervical cancer. Yet, we chose to do this (the National Cervical Screening Campaign) because we know that men are less likely to make a fuss.”

Around 27 years later, here in New Zealand 50 women die each year from cervical cancer. Way too many.

600 men die of prostate cancer in New Zealand each year and we don’t make a fuss.

We are men. We have the scars to prove it.

I am a man

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