TRIPLE M microphones will stay silent on Monday for the station's fifth annual No Talk Day.
There’ll be no breakfast show banter, no announcers, no news or traffic reports and no ads.
From 6am to 6pm, Triple M, with support from Beyond Blue, will create space to encourage listeners and friends to have a conversation around men's mental health and suicide.
All 45 stations across the Triple M network, including Sunraysia's 97.9, will be involved.
Additionally, between 6pm and 7pm this week, Triple M counts down to No Talk Day, by replacing all announcers for the hour across the country with messaging encouraging listeners to check-in on their mental health, and focus on the importance of building mental fitness.
Triple M Melbourne content manager and founding No Talk Day advocate Shaun Gough said he understood that it takes courage to talk about mental health.
"Triple M’s No Talk Day is when we ask listeners across the country to ‘check-in’ on their own mental health or someone they care about and think about having a potentially life-saving conversation if that’s what’s needed; to tell someone their story, or genuinely ask a mate how they’re travelling," he said.
"These are conversations that matter, they can save lives."
Triple M has also released a long-form mental health discussion called The Courageous Talk Roundtable.
It features mental health advocate and daughter of AFL great Danny "Spud" Frawley, who was battling depression when he died, Chelsea Frawley, First Nations performer Mitch Tambo, clinical psychologist and anxiety specialist Dr Jodie Lowinger, and SCA transgender employee Andrea Cole who has worked at Triple M for more than 35 years.
The special guests talk about their own experiences with mental health, sharing advice on how to best start the conversation with others.
Triple M said over the past four years it had dedicated a combined 2,400 hours encouraging others to have these important conversations.
To get advice on how to start a conversation for yourself or with someone you’re worried about or for more information on depression and anxiety, please visit: www.beyondblue.org.au