Joey Jones, 30, from Murrayfield in Edinburgh, hopes to lift 1,277,125kg which he said is the estimated combined weight of all men who killed themselves in the UK between 2021 and 2023. “For 10 years I’ve struggled with mental health off the back of being sexually assaulted when I was 20 years old,” he told the PA news agency. “My world is in the gym, so I thought, how can I bring those statistics into into my world? “Slowly but surely, through Movember, it massively helped my own mental health because I was trying to raise money and awareness, but also naturally opening up about my own mental health for the first time to a wider audience,” he said. Joey Jones hopes to help other men living with mental health issues (Joey Jones/PA)“The first words are always the hardest, but once you manage to find the courage and confidence to speak about your mental health… that darkness just becomes lighter.”He hopes sharing his story will help men living with mental health issues to have their “first conversation”.

Source: The Herald November 04, 2024 09:03 UTC