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Nova radio host Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli breaks down in tears as he reveals his own mental health struggles on R U OK? Day
Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli became emotional as he discussed the impact lockdown has had on mental health on his Fitzy & Wippa radio show on Thursday.
The 41-year-old host opened up about his struggles with mental health and shared a powerful message for R U OK? Day.
‘The impact of lockdown over the past two years has had a devastating affect on mental illness on all ages but growingly the more heartbreaking on our teenagers,’ he said.
Emotional: Nova’s Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli (pictured) became emotional as he discussed the mental health crisis during lockdown
‘You can feel the heavy weight hanging over us, sort of a cloud, there’s a cloud and it makes things harder,’ Wippa continued.
‘Where we live is the flight path to the gap that that helicopter takes and when I sit there at night and I can hear the chopper flying over above I just can’t sit comfortably, I feel for the people, I feel for the families, it just makes me feel sick.’
Wippa also discussed his own battles with mental illness.
Candid: The 41-year-old host opened up about his struggles with mental health and shared a powerful message for R U OK? Day
‘It’s been funny with me in the past, I can see it coming, I notice patterns or that I can’t clear my mind so easy and I get caught on thoughts so I’m very alert and aware of that so I don’t spiral further,’ he said.
‘Sometimes there’s triggers. Anyway, I see it, I watch it, I’ll drop all alcohol and make sure I exercise as much as I can.’
He also said it’s important that ‘people out there know there is care and help here for you’.
‘Sometimes for people out there, it just feels impossible. It’s impossible to get out of bed, it’s impossible to talk to anybody and it’s impossible to find a reason to be there. It’s the darkest place on the planet. We need to reinforce to anybody going through that, that there is care here for you,’ he said. Pictured Wippa and wife Lisa
‘Sometimes for people out there, it just feels impossible. It’s impossible to get out of bed, it’s impossible to talk to anybody and it’s impossible to find a reason to be there.’
‘It’s the darkest place on the planet. We need to reinforce to anybody going through that, that there is care here for you.’
R U OK?Day is a national day of reminding everyone to support those struggling.
Campaign: R U OK?Day is a national day of reminding everyone to support those struggling
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