A couple of weeks back, we sat down with Black Stone Cherry frontman Chris Robertson and chatted about his struggles with mental health. As you'll see from his words below, these are issues that can affect anyone and there is still so much work to be done to raise awareness of the daily battles sufferers endure…
“The crazy thing about depression, or any mental health issue for that matter, is that it’s the only sickness you have to prove to somebody before they believe you, which makes it feels like a battle you’re intended to fight alone. You’ll get told everything will be fine and you’ll get through it. But if it was cancer, for example, the whole world would cry because we all know how that disease affects people. When will it get to where we take mental health with the same seriousness? Because it kills people every single day…
“I was almost one of them. I was too ashamed and scared to say anything to anybody, to the point where my wife would go to work and I’d just sit at home and fuckin’ cry. I would literally pull my hair out because I couldn’t get anything to go the way I needed it to be going. Nothing was working. I had no money, we were barely scraping by and it felt like everything I was doing was in vain. I started to wonder why I was even bothering.