Reaching for an emotional flak jacket

Reaching for an emotional flak jacketTalking about mental health has long been one of the big taboos for journalists.Rachael Jolley looks at why and what has changed "It's really difficult to adjust when you haven't got a life or death decision, and you're not seeing horrible things every minute," says Peter Wilson, former Europe editor for The Australian, talking about returning from a war zone.One day he was covering Wimbledon and the next Wilson was covering the war in Iraq.In 2003.Wilson, his photographer and translator hired a car in Kuwait and drove across the Iraq border, where they were captured by Iraqi soldiers about a week later."Initially, they thought we were spies.And eventually we convinced them we were journalists."Wilson remembers: "It was terrifying."

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