"I'd be in my room and it'd be blacked out. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I'd miss birthdays, I'd miss events...I just didn't want to see anyone, I didn't want to talk to anyone and I had to ask myself why am I feeling like this? I think I just had t..

Matt Newlands is a former police officer turned ‘R U OK? Day’ ambassador and mental health advocate. During his decade in the force, Matt faced pain, distress and violence on a daily basis as he sought to protect the community. The job revealed an insigh.

“It’s all about the art of separation, just deviate away from those who drain your inspiration...” Those are lyrics Glenn Draper wrote for a friend who was trying to get off drugs. Years later he realised he was writing it to himself. These days Glenn’s .

17 year old Flynn Gill is one of less than 4,000 Australians living with cystic fibrosis - a genetic disorder that severely impacts the lungs and digestive system. Flynn was diagnosed with CF just a few weeks after birth and then with CF related diabetes.

Exercise physiologist and former rugby league player Joshua Tree was bullied, beaten and belittled throughout his young life and found himself in desperate need of health support that wasn't readily available. He managed to survive his darkest days and ..

Youth detention is institutionalising young men from an early age - feeding a cycle of incarceration that repeats over generations. Although only around 5% of Australians aged 10-17 are indigenous, they account for around 50% of those being kept in..

Dave Oliver has always lived and breathed rugby, a game known as one of the roughest and most hyper masculine on earth. He’s also gay and from the time he was a teenager until his early thirties, he hid his sexuality from everyone - horrified that he’d b.

It's Men’s Health Week! And we’re shining a light on a male dominated industry suffering from higher than average rates of suicide. Men in construction have a history of struggling particularly badly with managing their mental health and as graduate psyc.

Half Fijian and half Australian, Alipate 'Bobby' Carlile grew up in Victoria confused about where he fit in... With no obvious cultural group to belong to, he felt like he was missing something; and he went looking for it in footy. From the momen..

There's a misconception that people only get depression when something terrible happens to them... But for some depression slowly takes hold for no obvious reason at all. What would you do if all the experiences and people that have always brough..