Movember, encourages the growing of a moustache during November. For many men November has become Movember. It’s an awareness raining campaign, for two men’s health issues; prostrate cancer and depression.

It’s an overt display of a social conscience and I am unsure if the symbolism is hollow or significant. I am going to err on the side of ‘significant’, if awareness raising helps to reduce any of the social stigma associated with depression then Movember is a good thing.

I have read on the campaign posters that 1 in 8 men will be affected by depression in his lifetime. There is a significant correlation between untreated depression and suicide.

Movember has me blogging and others talking, so I have to say that’s also a good thing. Whatever an individual’s motivation, mo-growers can deservedly feel virtuous. As for me. I am sporting a soft dark upper-lip fuzz, unsponsored and unpromoted, my own little gift of caring. Shhhh…. I feel smugly virtuous.