Yeah, really, really good,” says the former footballer and incoming chair of the mental health charity Mind. View image in fullscreen ‘The most incredible woman I’ve ever met’ … Carlisle with his wife, Carrie. He talks incredibly movingly and perceptively about depression, but you sense he could just as easily turn his hand to mental health standup. View image in fullscreen From left: Carlisle, Paul Elliott, Mark Bright and Garth Crooks at an anti-discrimination-in-football summit at 10 Downing Street, London, 2012. Now he sounds like an evangelical preacher – not for God, not even for good mental health, but for life itself.