"I've had several suicide attempts - I've been close to death on a number of occasions including in January this year," says Colin Dolan.
The 57-year-old Glaswegian speaks frankly from the side of a football pitch at Goals Liverpool South just off Speke Boulevard. "I always thought I would eventually be successful and I resigned myself to the fact I would take my own life," he explains. "But when the doctor told me I was going to pull through, for the first time in I don't know how long I thought 'yeah I want to live now."'
It's a Tuesday evening and the weather is cold - but the car park at the football centre is full and all the pitches are occupied by players having a casual kickabout or competing in various mini-leagues. Colin stands to the side speaking to the ECHO and observing the dozen players chasing each other and the ball around the artificial grass in front of him.
