I'm taking on 5K a Day in May for Campaign Against Living Miserably.I'm raising money to support their lifesaving services, and your contribution will help them reach more people.We’re the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and we’re taking a stand against suicide. That means standing against feeling hopeless, standing up to stereotypes and standing together to show life is always worth living.Every week 125 people in the UK take their own lives. CALM exists to change this - by offering life-saving services, provoking national conversation, and bringing people together to reject living miserably.

This charity is personal to me, I have had friends who have found the burden of living too much and committed suicide, one school friend committed suicide when he was only 19 and a family friend was 23 when he took his own life.

The tragedy is that often people feel alone, disconnected, misunderstood and unloved, when the opposite is true. My own problems with alcohol and anger, led me to a point where I believed that no one cared and each day was a painful struggle just to interact with other people and “do” life. It was a dark lonely place and a dark time in my mind.

Fortunately, I meet someone who understood and offered me a way out. I have been sober 22 years now and enjoying life mostly, despite the existence of lemon drizzle cake and cheese!

We have a social norm where we ask each other in the morning, how are you? The agreed response is, I am good/fine, how are you? We are generally ill-prepared for any other response. We may sense something isn’t right with someone but often don’t have the time or the skills to do more.

None of us really know what is happening in each other’s lives, perhaps during May we could try to socialise a little more at work, take a lunch break together, sit in the sun, chat, laugh and just breathe.

We are all human beings, we are all important, perfectly imperfect. A little time spent together, with no work chat would be really refreshing.

If you can find a pound to donate fantastic. If you can’t no worries, perhaps you will take time to consider your own mental health and wellbeing and that of those around you.

Rascal is available as a therapy dog, BTW!