Following Mental Health Awareness Week, participants of Red Neighbours’ walking football programme have spoken about their experiences of mental health.
Billy Dowling, 74, from West Derby, has been attending walking football twice-a-week for the past year.
Billy, what’s been your experience of mental health?
I’ve had problems you know. I lost my wife to cancer at a very young age, when she was 47, but I had to nurse her since she was 40. After she died, I just continued to bring up my family – three boys and a girl. That was a struggle and, if I’m honest, I was struggling all the time.