Don’t be afraid

Wow where do I start this is my first go at a blog and to be fair it may be rubbish but please give me a read and see what you think, I have no medical experience and can only write from personal experience.

Men and mental health what has and hasn’t been said I’ve heard it all in the past and to be honest up until about 9 years ago I would have said the same “man up” “toughen up” “suck it up and get on with it” but as you will know that is not the case I’ll give you some background on my story it may or may not help but if you take one thing from this please let it be the you are not alone.

9 years ago I finished a work meeting that was as usual incredibly boring on my way home I started feeling a little down i didn’t think anything else of it and sparked up yet another fag and carried on my drive home, nothing happened just a normal boring drive on a Friday got out early which is always a bonus, got back parked the car walked up the 3 flights of stairs walked in the door and burst into tears luckily my now ex wife (more on that at a later date) was there to comfort me and make sure I was alright the main problem and question was what was wrong? Why was I like this? What had happened? The issue was I had no idea I didn’t have any answers all I could say to my ex wife was I dont know, there’s nothing wrong I’m fine, I’ll be alright soon. How very very wrong I was my ex wife kept asking me what was wrong but that’s the problem with mental health sometimes you dont have the answers and I definitely didn’t that’s where my journey with mental health started.

I hope you enjoyed reading this I will post more blogs soon explaining my journey and if this help 1 person then thats amazing.