Andrew Nolan - The Ability Show 23/04/26

Andrew Nolan gives talks on mental health and suicide awareness. He chats here with Adrianne and tells her about his experience with depression and how, while working as an agri-contractor in rural Ireland, his feelings of isolation were exacerbated and led to him having mental health problems and suicidal thoughts. Andy says that “everybody is so busy that no one has time to drop in to people down the road, yet simple things like dropping in for tea lifts people up.” He explains what supports helped him and how he now goes around the country telling his story to young people to help them to overcome depression. He has said “you have to focus on the positives every day”, and if you want to get in touch with Andy go to his FB page www.facebook.com/andy.nolan.10