{"id":626212,"date":"2026-09-16T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626212\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:58:10","slug":"mental-health-talking-bench-will-be-a-community-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626212\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health talking bench will be a &#8216;community effort&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silcock works as a mental health champion and said that simple conversations can have a big impact:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes applying a little logic to things when somebody sees something as being quite a disastrous event and just breaking it down into little pieces and working out what the actual issue is may save somebody&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the people who contributed to the project knew Theo from dog walking in Tetbury and the bench is being installed in a location he frequently visited on his walks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Its just somewhere where people can go, sit and reflect, or speak with somebody,&#8221; said Silcock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of the bench has also been made by volunteers at Tetbury Men&#8217;s Shed and has been painted in Theo&#8217;s favourite colours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a lot of people that felt a connection to him [Theo],&#8221; said Colin Cunningham, who had a close friendship with Theo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[His passing] shook a lot of people in Tetbury up because a lot of people would know him in some sort of capacity and what brought us together was the need to do something,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Silcock works as a mental health champion and said that simple conversations can have a big impact: &#8220;Sometimes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-626212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}