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Benny Abbott

Message of Support

I’m walking in solidarity this October for Australians affected by mental illness and suicide. You are not alone. Always here for a chat no matter the time of day.

Total Raised

$849

Total Distance

51km

Distance Goal

60km

Support My Walk for Mental Health Research

Did you know that 1 in 5 Australians experience symptoms of mental illness each year?

In fact, every day in Australia, 9 people will die by suicide.

Mental illness can be debilitating and can have a devastating impact on not only those living with it, but those around them.

This October, I’ll be taking part in One Foot Forward to help reduce the impact of mental illness and suicide.

I'm walking to raise funds for Black Dog Institute, so that they can put ground-breaking new mental health treatment, education, and digital services into the hands of the people who need them most.

It would mean so much to me if you donated to support my walk.

Together, we can create better mental health for all Australians.

My Updates

Walk with me

Ok legends I'll be hitting the road this Sunday the first of from Mt Vic train station on a practice walk to see how we can go. If you see me give me a honk. If you want to join me well let's walk together. Remember it's not to late to talk. Mental health takes to many lives. I would rather have you cry on my shoulder then me craying at you funeral. Thus is just a practice and to add the ks

The map is set

WOW! What can I say, It hasn't even been a day and we have hit the half way mark. So that being said we have the route planned for the walk. It will be over 2 days, doing this walk will be a challenge. Walking with Parkinson's has its challenges like, Slow movement, stiffness and rigidity so this well be a amazing achievement for all of us involved. We will be starting from Mt Victoria train station heading down the mountain as far as we can get on the Saturday. Then return were we stopped on the Sunday to finish at blaxland You can join me on part of the walk start or finish and part between. Chat along the way. I'm guessing there will be some sore feet, blisters but I know we can do this. The date will be the 2nd and 3rd of November. I will be practising and adding the kilometres leading up to the day so if you see me come and talk a walk. Thanks to everyone for your support like so many of us mental health is a scary issue and there is never enough help for people. Let's do this so we can say that person before it's to late. Lets go

walk with me

Walk with me for mental health. As my condition slowly gets worse and the treatment gets stronger I thought how can I overcome the stress and keep the brain active. A bit about my story to date. With some my recent diagnosis of early onset Parkinson's come its own issues and movement is one that I suffer. So I thought how can I teach myself and my 2 sons that life is amazing no matter the road we are on. Yes I still work and I try to keep active as much as I can with football, riding bikes bush walks when movement allows. But most of all when I feel the world is heavy I smile and think. Let's leave some foot prints on this amazing planet. Date to be confirmed but I would like to invite everyone to join me on this walk from a starting at Mt Victoria to blaxland. Walk for a kilometre or the whole 60 or as many you can. As we can try to get to my goal and raise as much money for mental health. I'll be practising in the weeks to come and add to my gains. Let's see if we can get more kilometres in.

Cheers for your support on this journey