Dear parents, please don’t choose to die…
*** Content warning: Suicidal themes *** Dear dad or mum to a child or children, Firstly, let me...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 10, 2020 | Life, Mental health, Parenting, The Westsider, Writing | 0 |
*** Content warning: Suicidal themes *** Dear dad or mum to a child or children, Firstly, let me...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured, Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
Five years is a brilliant achievement for a printed publication, these days. Let alone one that is...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Nov 28, 2019 | Life, Mental health, Writing | 0 |
Yes, I’ve had multiple periods of time where my mental health was quite bad. Yes, I have hit the...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 10, 2019 | Life, Mental health | 0 |
It’s been six years since I did a run of any note. Six years… and during that time...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
27 March this year was the last ‘coming-of-age’ milestone of my father’s suicide. He took his own life twenty-one years ago, in 1998.
Ordinarily I’m overcome with a sense of dread in the weeks before this annual milestone, but this year, I wasn’t.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
In announcing an expansion of its mental health program, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) said the men “will be automatically offered a comprehensive mental health assessment and sign-posted to professional support if needed.”
Australia should go even further.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Oct 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
It was Saturday, March 28, 1998, when I received the news that would cast a shadow over the rest of my life.
I was 16 years old, and nothing would ever be ‘normal’ as I knew it, again. My dad had killed himself and now, 20 years on, I still have a father-shaped hole in my heart that won’t ever be filled.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Sep 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
One of the many shitful things about having a parent who died while I was young is that my kids...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 15, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
A new suicide prevention education campaign has been launched through a collaboration of leading...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jun 15, 2018 | Media, Mental health, Writing | 0 |
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close In midst of this thine hymn my willing eyes, Or wait...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 28, 2017 | Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
I love being a dad and having my three kids. I’m a very involved and good father, and the...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 21, 2017 | Comedy, Mental health, Performance | 0 |
Depression and suicide are far too common, particularly amongst men in regional areas. My father...
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