KYABRAM’S Warren Davies and his inspiring story have been featured on the Rural Adversity Psychological Well being Program’s latest web site forward of Males’s Well being Week, which started on Monday.
The web site www.yougotthismate.com.au, operated by RAMHP — a significant program of the College of Newcastle’s Centre for Rural and Distant Psychological Well being — supplies helpful tips about how and why to take motion, and connects males to the absolute best care of their native space.
It additionally includes a five-minute interview with Warren on his lifelong wrestle with psychological well being.
Warren has confronted many challenges over the course of his life together with floods, household disputes, and the continuing drought — all of which considerably impacted on his psychological well being.
Warren stated at his lowest he felt like he was letting his household down, his cows down, everybody down. He felt like a failure.
“After I speak about my mental-health journey, it began across the time of the floods because it was the primary problem that mom nature threw at us however then the drought hit and I began to withdraw and didn’t need to converse to individuals about how I used to be feeling and the impression it was having on me,” he stated.
After in search of skilled assist, Warren stated the most important factor was acknowledging what was occurring and understanding there was nothing fallacious with the way in which he felt, particularly as a farmer and as a bloke, and that it’s okay to have feelings.
Beforehand a dairy farmer, he now provides farm administration options and public-speaking providers via his web site www.theunbreakablefarmer.com.au/
A few of Warren’s methods for coping embody re-engaging together with his group, being an lively member of the group, music, chilling out, performing some fencing and seeing a psychologist.
● If in case you have any considerations about your self or a beloved one, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
If you want to get behind Males’s Well being Week or discover out what you are able to do to help a mate or a person in your life, please share the web site www.yougotthismate.com.au
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