There’s a bit of an awakening in Ireland at the moment around the issue of Mental Health and the toll it is taking on our society. I still think that we have a long way to go and that not enough people are talking about or indeed talking about their own issues.
So, I thought I’d open up a little bit here and hopefully it will inspire somebody to try and seek some help for themselves.
I wrote the introduction to this piece in 2014 and I don’t really feel like it’s gotten any closer to getting better, if anything I think it may have gotten worse. I feel like we’re constantly on the verge of making it better, then something else pops. Like when you buy your first house, just when you’ve fixed one pipe, another explodes through the ceiling. If you’re lucky, nothing else will break in the next 20 minutes.
Dan Higgins 