The dressing room is a tough place to be if you have anxiety or depression

The former St Johnstone and Falkirk striker writes about how mental health issues affected his career

There is a definite expectancy in life that men should sort themselves out, get on with it and cheer up. But I want to write about my troubles in football, and how I think it affected my career.

I should start by saying I’m not suicidal, never have been and although I have almost certainly been depressed, it’s so tough to write about it and I have genuinely been wanting to for so long, but the irony is, to write about anxiety and nerves you have to overcome them. Therein lies the problem.

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