?The bolt of lightning is a traditional symbol of sudden illumination and the destruction of ignorance?

Permission to Torque is a community-driven organisation within the automotive sector that has been created simply to show people it’s good to talk about mental health. Through our various communities we will display a symbol which simply says ?I understand?. That?s often enough for someone to feel better, to feel they are not alone and maybe even enough to spark a simple conversation with a stranger who has been there or at the very least, wants to simply show it’s ok and normal to feel shitty sometimes. No judgement.

So many people struggle to approach the subject from both the person struggling and the supporter sides. The struggler may feel embarrassed or awkward ? or even that they are having a good day and simply don?t want to bring it up as it brings them down.
It’s very difficult for friends or family to even identify that their loved ones and mates are so deep in a depressive or anxious hole. The strugglers have become experts at masking their dark thoughts and hiding how they really feel.

From experience, I would rarely open up to someone asking ?so, how are you"? – the default responses would always come out ?fine mate, you"? etc. Because at that moment, I probably wasn’t in the depths of hell trying to escape my own mind.

However, when there was a conversation already in flow, or a friend had told me th...