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Humza Yousaf said he’s “not ashamed at all” to admit his mental health suffered in the wake of his resignation as Scottish first minister.
The former leader of the SNP said in a post on social media that it’s “okay not to be okay” and “the last few weeks have been really difficult”.
Announcing he was embarking on the Couch To 5k challenge to improve his physical and mental health, he said in a video: “Politicians are of course notoriously bad for practising what they preach. And one thing we often try to encourage other people to do is to get physically active.
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“It’s good for you, of course, physically, but also really good for your mental health.
“And I have to say, certainly in the last year, probably, frankly, for the last 12 years when I have been a minister, I’ve not been particularly physically active and certainly in the last 13 months probably at my most unfit. So here’s an opportunity for me to get physically fit again.”
He said he was doing this to help not just with his physical health but also “to help with my mental health”.
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