The 70-year-old, who has been going to Molineux since he was 10 years old, said he started having problems in early 2020.<\/p>\n
“I’d disappeared a couple of times with intention of ending things, because things has just got too much for me,” he said.<\/p>\n
Then he heard about the support offered by the Wolves Foundation’s Head 4 Health group and decided to attend a session.<\/p>\n
He remembered starting with a group of around 10 other men and said they talked and shared their stories with each other, but were not put under any pressure to do so.<\/p>\n
He described it as a “very, very safe space,” and that it was “such a relief to be able to unburden myself”.<\/p>\n
While he said his family had been very supportive, he felt “sometimes you need to be able to speak to someone else”.<\/p>\n
Martin said he had seen a welcome change in attitudes towards mental health in recent years, with a greater willingness to talk.<\/p>\n
He encouraged other people like him to take up the offer of help from Wolves and his story will be told in the lead-up to the match against Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 70-year-old, who has been going to Molineux since he was 10 years old, said he started having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-417239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}