Men's Mental Health Blog

It's time to dispose of these 7 Myths About Men’s Mental Health. Enough is enough! We hear it all the time. “Men do not talk.” “Blokes just get on with it.” “Real men handle their own problems.” I believed a lot of those lines for years. It nearly killed me. The truth is, men do feel. Men do struggle. Men do want support. What gets in the way is a pile of myths that do not match reality, but still control how we act. Let’s call some of those myths out and see what happens whe

What to do when someone confides in you, and how to achieve the best possible outcome from those difficult conversations... I vividly remember the first time I confided in one of my mates in a state of serious distress. This happened many moons ago when I was still in the Army and had recently returned from my second tour to Afghanistan. I had been home for some 6-8 months and my world was imploding. Things were no longer making any sense. I was so lost, confused, frustrated,

People sometimes ask how a Special Forces engineer ends up standing in front of a room talking about mental health. The short answer is that I nearly did not make it here. The longer answer is this post. The short version I served as a Special Operations Engineer with the Australian Special Forces and deployed twice to Afghanistan. I came home with PTSD and major depression, and my twenties became a fight to justify each morning. Today I speak, mentor and advocate, because as