was found dead at home<\/a> in September 2024, at the age of 23.<\/p>\nHis father Dave Forder has been using this past year to get more men talking about their mental health during monthly walks across Warwickshire.<\/p>\n
Mr Forder said he and a friend first went for a two-hour walk in Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, but had ended up getting “drenched” in the rain, adding: “The best thing that ever happened since Kane was me going on that walk.”<\/p>\n
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Mr Forder has been hosting monthly mental health walks across the county<\/p>\n
He told BBC CWR that going on the walk, with about 10 other people from the pub, had made a difference to his mental health at the time.<\/p>\n
“Just for the odd second I was laughing in the worst time I was going through,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“It changes you, going out on a walk in the fresh air does make a difference and it does help clear your head.”<\/p>\n
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Hundreds of people attended Kane Forder’s funeral<\/p>\n
Mr Forder, who has become an advocate for mental health on social media since losing his son, said it had been a “hard year”.<\/p>\n
He said he had the “whole of Coventry” helping him after his son’s death, but the pain of his loss was not any less a year on.<\/p>\n
“Everyday’s a struggle for everybody, I’m not on my own, I’m not the only one that gets up in the morning and [doesn’t] want to get out of bed because I’ve lost someone,” Mr Forder said. <\/p>\n
“There’s millions of us out there.<\/p>\n
“All over the world [on Facebook] I just see ‘I lost my son’ of every age and there’s people crying out for help. You’re never alone and that’s the message I’m trying to get out.”<\/p>\n
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