This will talk about my personal experience when my mental health was low and was not able to reach out due to not knowing what to do with my mental health.

This will also talk about subjects that could potentially trigger people as well, and this is just a small warning.

 

Speaking from experience, I have had and am still having mental health issues that make me feel like it is hard to speak up due to being a man.

 

There is still some stigma around men needing to be the big tough guys out there, especially with people like me, who are also a different ethnicity as well compared to everyone else and are much shorter and less strong compared to others.

 

I have gone through self-harming when I was 16 years old and back when I was 18 years old too due to hard changes in life and not being able to deal with it myself.

 

I did not know who to go to when I was that young, but I wish there was something back in my old school where there was something that I could pick up and see and there would be a list of numbers or people to contact if I needed someone to help with whatever I was struggling with.

 

Even now, I did not know that there was something such as the mental health policy around college that I could use before needing to wait around for a therapy session with Sefton Talking Therapies.