ThumbsUp4Cohen - Suicide Prevention is Everyone's Business

08/05/2026

07/05/2026

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05/05/2026

Loveya mate 👍🏻💙

03/05/2026

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03/05/2026

I always try to speak from the heart, so it feels right to share that I’ve just spent 19 days in hospital with sepsis. It’s taken an enormous toll on my mental and physical health.

More than 12 hours in ED, 4 nights in ICU, 13 nights on a ward, 2 nights in the medi hotel and 16 days with a nasal feeding tube.

I have never felt so sick in my life. It’s been exhausting, overwhelming, and incredibly frustrating. Everything happened so fast, and then somehow time seemed to stand still. There were moments I truly didn’t know how I’d get through it, but I did.

Beyond the physical, it’s been just as hard mentally and emotionally. It’s also been tough on my kids, seeing their mum so unwell. Having so much time to think hasn’t been easy, and some days have felt unbearably heavy. Being in hospital on Cohen’s 24th birthday was especially hard, but having my two older kids there with me made it a little easier.

I don’t understand why life keeps hitting me when I’m already down. It feels like a constant test. But one thing is clear, life should know by now not to underestimate me. I’m still here, and I’m still fighting.

As always, the love of my kids keeps me going. They are my reason, always. I am so incredibly grateful for them👍🏻💙

EDIT: I should clarify I was released from hospital yesterday.

29/04/2026

Fremantle midfielder Nathan O’Driscoll has bravely opened up about his battle with anxiety, revealing he had contemplated taking his own life in the midst of “deep depressive states”.

25/04/2026

On ANZAC Day, we remember that not all wounds can be seen. Some are carried silently.

Lest We Forget 🌺

23/04/2026

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Meet Angus, a Year 12 student at Carrol College standing with the blue tree mural and quietly shaping the culture of mental health around him.

This blue tree is such a good reminder that schools are more than classrooms. They are places where young minds grow, and what is encouraged and nurtured in those spaces really helps shape who we become.

Thanks to Mrs Shilling, Ms Richards and the senior students for coming together to create this everyday reminder to check-in and look out for one another.

📍 Carroll College, Broulee NSW

21/04/2026

I’m still here… even on the days I don’t know how.

Loveya mate 👍🏻💙