Mental Health
This article has a happy ending, I promise. But the middle bit was pretty hard to write and I would imagine is going to be pretty hard to read. If this sounds familiar then please get help immediately; if you know of someone for whom this sounds familiar then please check in on them. My recovery was only possible because friends were there for me — once I told them what was going on. There’s people out there who care; find them, reconnect with people, do things that make you happy. Trust me, there’s a way out. “Like a dream you try to remember but it’s done Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn When you try to see the world beyond your front door…” SPORT saved my life one day. It also first flagged a problem. State of Origin Game 2, 2019. Queensland (my home state) leading the series 1–0. A chance to seal the series… and I didn’t care. Really didn’t care. Didn’t care that Queensland ended up being flogged, didn’t care when we levelled the scores early on, didn’t care e...