Tom Grennan encourages discussions on mental health

Singer Tom Grennan said he had now found it easier to talk about mental health problems to his friends than when he was younger.

Bedford’s original singer, 29, comment during a conversation with a winner of the BBCs make difference prices (Mad) who recognizes ordinary people who have made a difference in their communities.

Speaking to the Mad winner, Kevin Willows, who helped set up a mourning walking group, Grennan revealed the importance of walking with him.

“If I ever have the impression of wanting to remove something from my chest, if it is with friends, or my wife or my parents, I always say,” Can we walk? “” Said Grennan.

Discussing the importance of walking and exercise, Grennan said that “a walk can save a life, talking can save a life”.

The son of a manufacturer revealed how to grow in Bedford meant that it often found it difficult to sail in its emotional side.

“Small cities look a lot like Alpha (cities), with boys anyway, nobody wants to seem weak,” he said.

It was his mother who encouraged him to express his emotions, telling him “if you have emotions, then let them go out, because letting them go out is always the best thing”.

Grennan described how during a return visit to his hometown, he had open conversations with his friends about “our feelings, what was going on and there were a lot of tears, there were a lot of laughter, these obstacles were broken,” he said.

“I think that as it is like, we got closer and cut the garbage.

“And as an adult male now, we can sit down and talk about what we are going through and how we can take a hand.”

Grennan said that the victim of an uninsured and hospitalized attack with a broken jaw at university was when he first met to be depressed.

“It ruined me (the attack), why did he happen to me, why didn’t these people love me?” He questioned at the time.

It was by joining a music group, where he met his best friend and speaking as well as a song that helped him recover from the trauma.

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