Sharing how you feel with a friend can be life saving | Men Up – BBC

Sharing how you feel with a friend can be life saving | Men Up – BBC

The nurse said she couldn’t tell me anything patient confidentiality but I’m glad I came cuz whatever’s going on this is not the answer didn’t work clearly no the tablets they didn’t work nothing else but you said I know what I said be lying through my teeth this is the first time you’ve done

Anything like this what was going through your bloody head I just um I I just I I don’t know how I ever look the boys in the eye again anyone in the eye knowing what I am I’m a weak man half a man you know I was lying there watching that porn

And those men pumping away not bloody worry in the world and I can’t do that can I you know I I can’t compete with that and I just felt I felt uh I felt so um inadequate yeah it’s not just me though is it you know I promis Sarah that this was going

To work it was going to fix me finally but all I’m doing is letting her down again and again and again do you love her of course I do and does she love you yeah I can you just pee out of it and be happy that’s what she said to me when

This all started well they were that there have you believe that I met cine when I was 19 we were married at 21 and I was impotent by the age of 39 well they say life begins at 40 well I thought mine was over my marriage my life everything but it wasn’t

True in those years we had together after they they were the best we ever had and then she died she was taken away and I would have given anything anything to have had more time with her well you’ve got that time don’t go throwing it away now over this cuz I’m

Telling you I know for a fact you haven’t got to so what do I do go back finish the trial if the tablets work at all great if not K or as my lovely mother would put it them all Yeah

This is why talking about how you’re feeling is *so* important

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Swansea, 1994. Five ordinary Welshmen face up to their secrets and lies when they embark on one of the world’s first medical trials for the drug that would become Viagra. #MenUp #iplayer

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