Helping Men Find the Words

THE men of the Carrigan family have created a video to get the word out to other men about the importance of having a conversation about the important things.

See video below.

Pauline Carrigan, the mother of Will Carrigan who committed suicide on Christmas day last year, said it is important for men to attend the community education session next Monday and learn to find the words to start the conversation.

“If we are going to create a conversation it has to come from the top down,” said Ms Carrigan.

“Dad’s need to initiate rather than waiting for their children to come to them,” she said.

“The boys did the video to get that message across, we talked a lot as a family, but men often don’t talk about the real issues, the difficult issues,” she said.

“On the last day Will was alive, he said to me ‘I wished I’d have stayed working for my boss’ and I said ‘sweety don’t be silly you are doing so well with your new business’; then he said ‘I’ve never been this tired and this bad before’, and I said, ‘you’ll be alright you’re having a couple of days off now’,” she said.

“But he would have seen his father work hard, his grandfather work hard and it’s good to bee strong, but we also need other men to talk about not just the hero stories, but when they have failed or about how they can relate to having the same problem and what they did,” she said.

“We really want men from our community there next Monday, we really need men to turn up for the young men of our community,” Pauline Carrigan said.

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• WHEN: 6:30pm – 8.30 pm, Monday, November 28, 2016.
• WHERE: Scone High School Multi-Purpose Centre, Gundy Road, Scone.
• COST: Free.