I share this because I don't want other men to suffer as long as I did.

I share this because I don't want other men to suffer as long as I did. It took me almost 30 years to work out that I'd been suffering from and trying to manage severe depression most of my life.

With it being Mental Health Awareness Week I'd like to ask who has suffered from mental health challenges at some point in their life or even recently? The reason being if we can normalise it then more people can come out and get support instead of suffering alone.

Self-sabotage, brain fog, depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue, procrastination, low self-worth, ADHD, beating yourself up, hiding, loneliness, fear, poor self-discipline, self-doubt, feeling stuck or trapped, powerless, disassociating, addictions, lack of inspiration, lack of purpose, struggling to get up in the morning, financial issues, mediocrity, blowing your life up!

These are all signs of or can lead to being mentally challenged and severely affecting well-being and quality of life.

The truth is I've suffered from all of these and for long periods the majority of them all at once! Which would activate the sympathetic nervous response of FREEZING!

It took the imminent birth of my son and hearing from a dear friend and experienced parent that the best thing we can do as parents is to be of sound mental health; to finally decide to do EVERYTHING possible to turn this around once and for all.

I'd been trying my whole life to fight the voice in my head that was telling me there was something wrong with me. Trying to work out on my own how to consistently feel some sense of normality!

That voice was the voice of truth, there was something wrong with me. My mental health was taking me out constantly. Whenever I'd get on a roll it would sneak back in like a cunning fox and sabotage me, my life, my finances, and my relationships because there was this weird masochistic internal kink that was getting off on the pain and suffering which had become the long-term norm!

So when it wasn't there anymore and I felt good my brain would do anything possible to get the fix of cortisol and adrenalin that it was addicted to.

You'll be glad to know I finally worked it out and created a foolproof method of bio and mind hacks to manage it on a daily basis, which I will follow for the rest of my life to anchor my new norm of consistently feeling VITAL, POWERFUL & PURPOSEFUL...

... Whilst keeping a watchful eye out for the cunning fox/saboteur.