Huw Edwards: Depression left me unable to get out of bed

OHMYGOSSIP — Huw Edwards was left unable to get out of bed during a bout of depression.
The 60-year-old broadcaster – who has fronted ‘BBC News at Ten’ for almost 20 years – opened up about his experiences with mental health to Men’s Health UK (https://www.menshealth.com/uk/ ) and admitted that he struggled to make decisions and “dreaded” going to work while suffering with “very bad” depression.
He said: “I’m pretty clear that I have suffered – and do suffer – from depression. It’s not anxiety, although it includes anxiety, but it tends to hit me in a strong wave and then go away…I think at least I now know when I’m going to enter a phase like that. Your mind goes into a place where you don’t want to do anything. You can’t make any decisions. Things that you usually enjoy, you dread. You come into work and obviously you do a professional job, but you’re kind of pushing your way through it. And, of course, if it’s very bad – as it has been a few times over the course of 20 years – you can’t work. During the worst one I had, I couldn’t get out of bed.”
However, Huw also revealed that in order to combat his ongoing struggles with depression, he has taken up boxing to “pull [his] way out of it.”
He explained: “[Boxing] is one of the things I can do when I feel myself on the slide. I can pull my way out of it. I go to see Clinton [McKenzie, former boxer] in the gym. He’s brilliant and he understands – he’s got a son who’s had depression, so he understands this stuff.”
The journalist – who is married to TV producer Vicky Flind and has children Amos, Rebecca, Dan, Sammy and Hannah with her – went on to reveal that and his family are “open” when it comes to having discussions about his mental health battles, noting that one of his daughters has a special “code” to check in on him.
He told Men’s Health UK: “Relatively open, yes…They accept it’s just part of who I am. And that’s been great. It’s been very rewarding. Vicky’s [his wife] incredibly easy-going, very sympathetic. She’s supportive when she needs to be, she steps back when she needs to. The kids have different views on it. One of my girls will come to me and ask how I’m feeling. She’s got a code – she’ll say: ‘How are you upstairs today?’ And I think, for a 20-year-old, that’s a nice thing to be asked.”
Huw Edwards was speaking to Men’s Health UK ‘Talking Heads’ columnist, Alastair Campbell, in the June issue of the magazine, on sale from 25th May”

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