I haven’t been plotting, but my mind has been planning. All in the hopes that if the worst were to happen, I could be somewhat prepared – for the right goodbye.
Mental Health
We were taught that to be soft, was to be weak, it was to be a pushover, a coward. Soft was the opposite of everything we were told we should aspire to be as men. Hard and Tough were the goals, and anything less than this – anything softer than this – was simply unacceptable.
But with the biggest killer of men being themselves – is ‘hardening up’ really doing any of us men any good?
Domestic abuse is far different to any other danger that we face in our world. This isn’t like a shark attack, where we can tell people to stay out of the water; this is everywhere, every day, everyone. The threat has seeped into all parts of life, and as men, we have the ability, and the moral obligation, to help.
On the road to recovery sometimes you feel like wallowing in despair, sadness and sheer exhaustion – just for a minute.
This is a brief moment of that. Before we get back up, dust ourselves off, and keep on moving forward…
In a society that deems straight as the norm, there has to come a time in our lives when we have had to tell them that we are not it.
It’s about time I got this off my chest, it’s time to burn them back…
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When all hope is gone, and you feel forever lost, reach out for the light.
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In the Age of Instant where texts, emails and photos can be sent with the tap of a thumb from wherever you are in the world, there is little chance of finding peace, and finding a moment to be truly alone. But in this world, we are also feeling more isolated and more disconnected than ever before. With all the noise we surround ourselves with, nothing is being said.
Mental illness is at crisis point, and all around us the problem is getting closer and closer to home. In Australia more than one million people are suffering from depression, that’s 1 in 6 women, and 1 in 8 men. More than two million people are suffering from anxiety, that’s 1 in 3 women, and 1 in 5 men. 75% of mental illnesses appear before we are twenty-five years old.
Fortunately, as the issue surrounding mental illness, and the number of sufferers grow, so too do organisations and support networks to help.
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