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The two asks
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The two asks
We asked 1,527 people what actually helps with anxiety and low mood. Around 4 in 5 said sensory tools do. It is practical, non-clinical, and it works hardest on exactly what the men in your rooms carry.
Anxiety and low mood are what the men in your rooms come in with. They are also exactly where sensory tools score highest, and the effect holds whoever walks in.
However you cut it, matched sensory tools help roughly 4 in every 5 people. The gap between the best and worst slice is three percentage points.
For a lot of men, anxiety and low mood are the surface, not the whole story. A neurodivergent brain drives both, and it often goes unnamed for years. In our data, across 888 people with ADHD and 975 with autism, the overlap is striking.
So when a man keeps circling the same anxiety or low mood, it can be a marker for something he has never had named. Recognising that pattern is sometimes the first step he takes toward understanding himself, and toward a diagnosis that finally makes things make sense.
An ADHD or autism assessment in the UK now takes years. In that wait, most people are handed nothing at all. Sensory tools are the fastest, lowest-barrier support there is, and our survey is the only research in the world measuring how well they work on the symptoms of neurodivergent conditions.
Sensory tools need no diagnosis, no referral and no waiting list. A man can pick one up and feel the difference the same day. That is exactly why they matter most in the gap, and why the evidence for them has never mattered more.
You cannot fix what you cannot see. Rigorous data is how we finally understand these conditions, the symptoms behind them, and what genuinely helps. We want ANDYSMANCLUB at the forefront of this with us: not only supporting men today, but building the evidence base that could one day shape institutional guidance and the help men are actually offered.
CEO and founder of Analytical People. 30+ years consulting across Data Science, ML, AI and Statistics. Executive Committee member of the Association for Survey Computing, and a regular conference speaker on the role of advanced analytics in business and research. Survey design, MaxDiff choice modelling and reliability filtering are core practice. Every question earns its place, and every response is weighted for signal, so what we build together stands up to scrutiny.
The same three things your groups are built on. A sensory tool asks nothing of a man. He can hold it, fidget, and listen, or talk, on his own terms.
We took our 4,000+ verified reviews and pulled out the ones that mention anxiety by name. Here is the honest part: only about 1 in 10 of our reviewers are men. That gap is exactly what your reach would help us close.
Love this fidgit loosens with time great for my anxiety and autism.
Absolutely love this little spinner, really satisfying movement and I find it very calming.
These came well packaged with an additional little critter comfort and they work well.
Great little items that work so well as a focused in those anxiety moments.
Great discreet clicker for work, with the spines giving a lovely pressure when held tightly. The silent clicker occasionally catches and sticks, but overall it's a great item.
Helps me with appointment anxiety, especially the dentist.
I love this football fidget clicker. I'm autistic and it helps me with my anxiety. I'm a big Liverpool football club supporter so the red football is great.
It really helps me during my bad days with anxiety.
Fun fidget for anxious hands- arrived within two weeks of ordering it, and I loved the randomized colours!
Really grounding and helpful when anxious. Heed the warnings though. They can be sharp!
I am a skin picker when anxious and this little fidget gadget has been quite useful to occupy my hands!
I NEED more of these ! Really good for in my pocket when I'm anxious out and about.
I love it so much! It calms me down when my anxiety or stress is high!
Suffer really badly with anxiety, alongside other issues. This is so good!! I’d advise everyone to get one.
Great you for grounding especially when I'm feeling anxious. It's firm which means I can roll and squeeze it and love the pressure from the spikes.
Great fidget, helps me by being able to grip it to stop other ways to deal with anxiety.
Great for when I’m getting anxious or stressed, it really grounds me!
I love it! The colours are so pretty! Helps keep me grounded when I'm feeling anxious or nervous.
I love them! They help keep me grounded especially when I'm anxious.
Great for receiving anxiety and stress.
One grows the evidence. One puts something practical in the room. Neither costs your groups a thing.
Your network reaches thousands of men every week, exactly the people this research needs more data on. Sharing the survey grows the world's biggest sensory tool dataset and enables practical, targeted help to the people most likely to have never used sensory tools before. It can also help men identify where their anxiety and depression may actually be a side effect of neurodiversity.
We would supply your groups with sensory packs: simple, discreet tools a man can pick up on the way in. Something for his hands while he finds his words. We're confident they will help, the data tells us so overwhelmingly. For men who want to explore further, an exclusive Stimz × ANDYSMANCLUB discount partnership. We handle the kit, you keep doing what you do.
Not a generic fidget box. Our recommender takes a few minutes and no diagnosis. It asks how someone presents and what gets in the way, then matches them to the sensory tools most likely to help, drawn from the same dataset.
You built the room where men open up. We have the thing that helps hold them while they do. Let us bring it to your groups.