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We're Ryan, Dan, and Ant, three 20 something lads, from Birkenhead, who love football. 24% of women and 13% of men in England are diagnosed with depression in their lifetime. But men are three times more likely to die from suicide than women. We wanted to know why. Join us every Monday and Friday as we speak to people from the wide world of football, all about Mental Health, in an attempt to learn more about it, and encourage men to feel more comfortable talking about their health and wellbeing, and attempt to remove the stigma that still surrounds the topic.
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Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Episode 14:
What can Football learn from other sports about Mental Health?
Mark Boyns founded Opening Up Cricket in 2014, in response to his close friend Alex Miller's death. Alex died by suicide in December 2012, at the age of just 23.
Mark and Alex had been friends for a number years, teammates at South Sefton Park Cricket Club in Liverpool, and the feelings of depression that led Alex to suicide, were not unfamiliar to Mark.
Opening Up Cricket was founded with the intent on using Cricket as a vehicle to drive better understanding of Mental Health, and suicide prevention. We spoke to Mark about the difficulties in his life, the founding of Opening Up Cricket, and the differences between Cricket and Football, when it comes to Mental Health.
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