With the recently, much publicised, high profile mental health battles and suicides in the news, sadly it reminds us that we still understand so very little about the individual battle that someone experiencing anxiety and depression goes through. Often to the outside world things can look normal, hidden behind masks the illness is silent and invisible. For the person who is struggling with depression or anxiety the battle is real, it can be like Sleeping with the Enemy.

Mental illness doesn’t discriminate, the thing that you rarely hear in the news, is that mental illness and suicide is common and doesn’t just affect high profile people, across the nation the facts are alarming.

Resilience, persistence and determination are the three words that describe Victorian mental health advocate, and professional speaker, Warren Davies.

Warren, who speaks under the banner ‘the unbreakable farmer’, recently addressed a group of farmers on the Darling Downs to highlight the importance of mental health issues by telling his own compelling story of a failed suicide attempt.