A new Australian-led global review of more than seven million fathers highlights just how much their mental health matters.
New Australian research has found children face a 42 per cent higher risk of depression if their father is depressed.Researchers say it highlights the need for whole family interventions as well as more support for fathers.When Matt Grant found himself sitting in his car, crying before work, he recognised something was wrong, but he didn’t know what. “I was struggling big time. I was hiding my emotions, and it was building up,” says the leadership facilitator from Sydney’s Northern beaches.
It took Grant, then 20, about six months to understand what was happening. He had spoken with his mum, and eventually sought help from a doctor, receiving a diagnosis.Credit:He came to realise he wasn’t alone and others understood the depth of the pain he was in. It meant everything. It also gave him hope.
In the 15 years since that day, Grant has worked on developing the tools to manage his mental health and pushed himself to reach out when he wants to hide. Now, a father of three sons aged three, six and nine, he’s glad he has: “Otherwise, I don’t know how I’d be as a dad right now.” If he hadn’t addressed it, he suspects that, like many other dads he sees struggling, he’d be self-medicating, spending more time at work or avoiding his family: “I do see that happening ... because they don’t know how to deal with their kids when they’re suffering. It’s really, really sad.
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