Health Triangle - November 2024

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The November edition of Health Triangle addresses the biggest of all issues.
The creator of Movember did it in memory of his brother who took his own life. Suicide is now the single biggest cause of death for men aged 20 - 49. Without doubt, men are habitually reluctant to talk about what’s worrying them.
Movember is more about men’s mental health than any new moustache, however elegant!
In Poetry Corner. Wendy Cope uses a witty villanelle to encourage her significant other, who gets by ‘with friends and drink’, to see a psychiatrist.
You deduce it’s an uphill struggle!
Breaking News focuses on the right to die at a time of your choice.
Danielle Sax and Robert Manni both champion the life-enhancing value of sleep.
Every year, November is a natural bridge between autumn and winter. It is both an end and a beginning.
There is work to do in the garden to acknowledge the end and to prepare for the new beginning next spring.
Meanwhile there are great recipes to enjoy now from this year’s harvest.
Even the four movie reviews, this month, focus respectively on a young woman recovering from alcoholism on a remote Scottish island, a famous war photographer in World War Two, a facially disfigured man coping with his individual challenges and an elderly gay theatre critic in London in the 1930s when male homosexuality was actually illegal.
The world continues to change. There are new insights into perennial problems. See Yes to Life every single month.
Including this one: Movember!