BAILEY SMITH nearly had his promising AFL career derailed by an ACL injury sustained during a training session in December of 2023. Now, the star midfielder has revealed his recovery was even tougher than originally thought.At the 2025 AFL Awards night, where Smith...
PICTURE THIS SCENE: it’s 2am. Your eyes burn, a dull ache throbs behind your temples, and your phone's blue light casts a ghostly glow. Hours have melted into the digital ether since you swore you'd check 'just one last thing.' This isn't merely a bad habit; it's...
WHEN MEN’S HEALTH visits Sydney Swans HQ, a high-performance training facility within the Moore Park sporting precinct, the team has three games left in the 2025 home-and-away season and virtually no shot at cracking the top eight. Still, the atmosphere is not one of...
WE'VE ALL BEEN there. Sunday afternoon, phone in hand, dopamine depleted, when the algorithm serves up something that stops the doom scroll. For me, it was a young woman in her mother's basement holding up a book called Psycho-Cybernetics – telling me it would change...
IT’S THE MIDDLE of winter. I shuffle out of bed in the darkness, flicking on the espresso machine on the way to the loo. Grinding my coffee beans while the steamer boils, my bare feet cold on the kitchen floor, I open a news app.In very bold, all-caps font I see the...
At AFL Awards night, the Geelong Cats superstar lifted the lid on his time spent in a mental facility while recovering from a torn ACL
Your brain is being hijacked – neuroscientist TJ Power explains how to take back control
The Sydney Swans' season may be all but over, but Brodie Grundy is still giving 100 per cent every week
A chance TikTok discovery led MH columnist, Manoj Dias, to an unexpected breakthrough in self-image. Here's how any man can use this 60-year-old technique to break free from limiting beliefs
Social media and the news cycle highlight negative events shaping our world view and impacting our mental health. But by training your lens on the little bits of good in your life, you can gain a fresh perspective, one that’s perhaps a truer reflection of how the world works
The star of The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Eddington told us how he takes control when things get tough—and how it's changed over the years.
From silent struggles to inner strength
The retired footballer opens up about his struggles with mental health throughout his AFL career, what he would tell his younger self to do differently, and why he’s getting behind the Family Roast
Those nightly beers could be a sign of deeper issues
Journalist Jonathon Moran puts the microscope on himself, reflecting on the way addiction can lead us down dangerous paths
Osher Günsberg reflects on why granting your loved ones and fellow humans a little latitude and understanding could help us all in surviving the trials of daily life
The founder of the Gotcha4Life foundation explains why fostering connections between men is the first step in helping reduce the rate of suicide in Australia. And it can start with a simple text message
