{"id":239556,"date":"2026-01-18T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239556\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:43:06","slug":"wolverhampton-wanderers-raise-awareness-of-mental-health-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239556\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton Wanderers raise awareness of mental health support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d disappeared a couple of times with intention of ending things, because things has just got too much for me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then he heard about the support offered by the Wolves Foundation&#8217;s Head 4 Health group and decided to attend a session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described it as a &#8220;very, very safe space,&#8221; and that it was &#8220;such a relief to be able to unburden myself&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While he said his family had been very supportive, he felt &#8220;sometimes you need to be able to speak to someone else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin said he had seen a welcome change in attitudes towards mental health in recent years, with a greater willingness to talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-239556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}