The 70-year-old, who has been going to Molineux since he was 10 years old, said he started having problems in early 2020.
“I’d disappeared a couple of times with intention of ending things, because things has just got too much for me,” he said.
Then he heard about the support offered by the Wolves Foundation’s Head 4 Health group and decided to attend a session.
He remembered starting with a group of around 10 other men and said they talked and shared their stories with each other, but were not put under any pressure to do so.
He described it as a “very, very safe space,” and that it was “such a relief to be able to unburden myself”.
While he said his family had been very supportive, he felt “sometimes you need to be able to speak to someone else”.
Martin said he had seen a welcome change in attitudes towards mental health in recent years, with a greater willingness to talk.
He encouraged other people like him to take up the offer of help from Wolves and his story will be told in the lead-up to the match against Newcastle.
