Published: December 22, 2018
As isolation, drought and economic hardship take their toll, an initiative to reduce stigma is helping to save lives in rural Australia
Joe Meggetto, a dairy farmer from Victoria’s Warragul South, says that at various points throughout his life he’s wandered his farm with persistent thoughts of suicide. He would sit in a paddock after milking and sob. Loneliness and the day-to-day pressures of farming were grinding away at him. “There were some bloody dark times there,” he says.
“It got to the stage where once Michelle, my wife, invited my best man around and we had a talk. That’s, for me, what got the ball rolling. My experience is, in the end, I had my three boys and I wanted to seek help.”
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