"I chose to be brutally honest with myself. Because you have to… it helps me identify things that I need to work on, poor habits I needed to let go of, all in the attempt to become the best version of myself. " 

"I would say that, for me, addressing the shame of being a man with emotions has been the most important thing I have done to date." 

"Eventually, I came to terms with it and accepted what I was feeling but I became very cynical and didn’t want to get better because it would always come back. I accepted that this was my life now." 

"I started to then also work myself up about the smallest things, such as why others were not picking up on my change in behaviour. I was emotional all the time with constant mood swings, which had little to no reasoning behind them."