One The Front (One) Foot Forward
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs) | September 30, 2023
Club mates have been very charitable and generous with their appreciation of the Waratahs website and the Facebook page and the mountain range of statistics I gathered in 15 years of research. I’m grateful.
The truth is, at a time, twenty years ago, when I was planning and attempting suicide, chasing down the club’s history came as fabulous way to focus each day on something else. It was a strategy I learned in programs designed by the Black Dog Institute.
Tomorrow I start walking 100kms. I’m 67 and raising awareness and money for programs and strategies I used, even just this week, to overcome mental unwellness?. I’m alive but tomorrow another 9 Australians won’t be, dead by suicide. Men in rural areas are more prone. For people aged 15-44, it’s their leading cause of death.
What doesn’t kill you still doesn’t leave you with much more than long periods of depression and anxiety and disconnection. I had an advantage. All of us Waratahrians put each others Humpties back together again, over and over, just like mates always do.
At 43, I should have died but BDI and support from mates has kept me here … to walk … to ask you to help. Even $1 will do some good. Even if you can’t donate, please share this.
Donate to My 100km On The Front Foot
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