I missed BBC One's Inside Sport investigation into depression among sportspeople, but it featured the former All Black John Kirwan who fronted an advertising campaign in New Zealand to destigmatise the condition.
Earlier Outside Lefts have highlighted the mental health issues faced by sportspeople. One focused on the anxiety and depression that has accompanied the career of Somerset and former England Test cricketer Marcus Trescothick.
But Kirwan has done something different. He used his national hero status to appear on television and challenge mainstream views in an advert called There Is a Way through it.
So successful was the campaign that mental health programmes found it difficult to cope with demand, especially from men.
Stretching services was not the intention but, if anything, it proved the existence of a dark figure of depression lurking below the official statistics.
Few of us outside sport recognise the pressures professionals are under. We see the huge pay packets and sponsorship deals and it is true that many at the top of their game lead the lives of champagne charlies.
But pressure there is: in the case of John Kirwan, he will be familiar with the expression "it is better never to have played for the All Blacks than to have played badly for them just once". He turned out 96 times in the famous strip.
What are the chances of one of the UK's top sportspeople coming forward to "do a Kirwan" in a TV campaign? Or would we be too cynical about their so-called cosseted lives to take much notice?
I found this programme to be very true to my own experiences.
I have suffered with depression on and off for the best part of 10 years, and could completely relate to some of the feelings expressed - panic attacks (for seemingly no reason), wanting to shut myself away in a room and not speak to anyone, inability to concentrate and lack of sleep - to name a few.
For me, the big issue i had to overcome was feeling that people would look down on me if I admitted a problem - once i finally managed to realise that it wasn't something that was made up, and that it was an illness - i was able to speak to people about it, and ask for help.
I now recognise when i might be on the slippery slope, but am not to proud to ask for help.
I know it will be an ongoing battle to keep myself from getting low - but by taking each day, and each situation as they come, and by not locking myself away I have found that things are becoming easier.