Our member and Sky Sports News presenter Rob Wotton says people are more open about their mental health issues than ever before.

Rob is known to millions of UK sports fans as one of the faces of Sky Sports News.

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Mental health

鈥淢ental health is something that is very high on my agenda,鈥� he said. 鈥淚f we take a second suicide is the biggest killer of men under 30.

鈥淚 try to get my head around that. It鈥檚 not smoking, it鈥檚 not driving your car too fast, it鈥檚 not cancer, it鈥檚 not anything else, it鈥檚 suicide.

鈥淭o think of the mental anguish, pain that people have gone through to get to that state.

鈥淎nd also the mental anguish and pain that those people leave behind afterwards, that is a statistic you really have to stop and think and wonder whether we鈥檙e addressing as a society well enough.鈥�

Private practice

Rob was one of the original Sky Sports News presenters when it launched in October 1998. He combines his presenting with working in private practice, and is also a qualified scuba diving instructor

He added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e much more open, we鈥檙e much more willing and free to talk about these things, and that can only be of benefit and of help.

鈥淭alking is huge. It鈥檚 the only way.

Reach out

鈥淭here鈥檚 a phrase I like which is 鈥業 alone can do this but I can鈥檛 do this alone鈥�. I think it鈥檚 a wonderful little phrase.

鈥淲hat it means to me is that if my mental health is suffering it鈥檚 only me who can reach out but I need someone else to come and help me when I do reach out.

鈥淲e need other people to help us through these things and the fact the biggest killer of men under 30 is suicide is so utterly upsetting because it is, in most cases, avoidable.鈥�

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