‘It got so bad that I called my sister to say goodbye’ – depression and anxiety in farming
As a DCU study finds that farmers face significant mental health issues compared to the general population, two farmers reveal the extent of their struggles – and how they turned things round
For most of his adult life, Shay Concannon spent every waking minute on his family farm in Galway — sometimes on days when he fell out of love with being a farmer.
“I was always on the farm,” he says. “If I wasn’t milking cows at certain times of the day, I’d be getting a phone call from my family asking ‘What’s wrong with you?’.
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