Ahead of International Men’s Day on 19 November, Mr Edwards said he wants to raise awareness of the issues around men’s mental health.<\/p>\n
“Men in demanding jobs are told to ‘man up’ but that’s wrong,” he said. “I was the angriest man in the prison service and I alienated everyone.<\/p>\n
“Now I’m the happiest I’ve been since my 20s and at peace with my life. <\/p>\n
“My perspective on life has changed for the better and I’m investing in myself.”<\/p>\n
Alexa Knight, director of policy and influence at the Mental Health Foundation, praised Mr Edwards for sharing his story, describing it as an “act of real courage”.<\/p>\n
“Too often, men feel unable to speak out about their mental health, especially when they’ve been taught to stay silent, cope alone or ‘man up’,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Robert’s honesty helps challenge that harmful narrative and shows that asking for help is not only brave but life-saving.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of International Men’s Day on 19 November, Mr Edwards said he wants to raise awareness of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-253682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}